The French stock market crisis of 1961-1967 was the biggest of the twentieth century after that of the 1930s. By using the new stock index (historical CAC 40), we have been able to get a fair idea of its amplitude and detail its chronology. We consider the possibility that the crisis of the...

Our text does not intend to develop a history of French banks' Europeanisation, but instead to scrutinise the mentalities of French bankers, in order to determine whether they were confined to relationships with French business or embedded within networks of personal relations with their...