François Caron (24 March 1931 - 14 December 2014) was a French economic historian, specialising in the economic history of France from the 19th century onwards.
Life
Born in
Hazebrouck
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and gaining a diploma from the
Institut d'études politiques de Paris
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in 1953, he became an associate professor of history in 1956 and was posted to the research body of the
CNRS
The French National Centre for Scientific Research (, , CNRS) is the French state research organisation and is the largest fundamental science agency in Europe.
In 2016, it employed 31,637 staff, including 11,137 tenured researchers, 13,415 eng ...
in 1965. He then became assistant then assistant master at the
University of Nanterre, defending a doctoral thesis on the
Compagnie du chemin de fer du Nord between 1846 and 1937.
Works
Economic history
Railway history
Apart from his thesis, in 1973 he published via éditions Mouton a three-volume ''histoire des chemins de fer en France''.
*
''Histoire des chemins de fer en France,'' Tome 1'', 1740-1883'', Fayard, 1997 - (
Prix Guizot 1998)
* ''Histoire des chemins de fer en France'', Tome 2'', 1883-1937'', Fayard, 2005
*''Histoire des chemins de fer en France'', Tome 3, 1937–1997, Fayard, 2017
General history
* ''La France des patriotes (1852-1918)'', volume 5 of the ''Histoire de France'' edited by
Jean Favier, Fayard, 1985
References
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20th-century French historians
Railway historians
Knights of the Legion of Honour
1931 births
2014 deaths
People from Hazebrouck
Sciences Po alumni
Academic staff of the University of Burgundy
Academic staff of Paris-Sorbonne University
category:Economic historians