Talk:Economic history of France

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References[edit]

I've replaced the "References/Early Modern" section here -- many were in French, and some were not about economic history -- with a "Selected Bibliography" covering the entire subject, of works in English only. Made an effort to avoid throwing in the "old classics", instead listing new & interesting works.

There's an awful lot written on this subject, much of the very best of it in French and sadly un-translated so far. The effort here tho is to attract / interest / entice the average eng:Wikipedia article reader, whose French if existing is rusty & certainly does not extend to economics lit., and who doesn't want to re-learn all of Econ 101 anyway but just wants something good to read on this precise topic. Hope this is OK.

--Kessler 02:23, 9 June 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Unfortunately, in so doing, you have removed the bibliography for the footnotes. Reference to these works should probably be placed back in somewhere, as verifiability is a wiki aim. --NYArtsnWords 02:49, 9 June 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Oops, sorry, hadn't noticed the connection: I see you've put the data back in under Notes. --Kessler 11:36, 9 June 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Economy of Modern France section[edit]

This section was marked with a "cleanup" tag -- since March -- and it appears to have been a carbon-copy of [1], maybe, so I've replaced it.

My replacement is entirely original by me and is meant to be a sketch, merely -- still a "stub" -- so I hope others will chime in on stretching & trimming & footnoting & debating it. Top-of-the-head, this one, so please forgive the breezy generalizations, but I thought an overview was needed, fast, before the copyright police got in here and nixed the entire article for the faults of the predecessor.

If someone can figure out how to combine my two footnotes here with the others I'd be grateful: can't get this done myself, at the moment, but I'll try to whenever I can get back to this.

--Kessler 13:43, 9 June 2006 (UTC)[reply]

The way to accomplish the above, I think, is to place the current Notes into the text marked up as follows:

ref (Note) /ref

Notes

references/

so the Notes of all sections will appear -- combined together and numbered in sequence, & automatically re-numbering when others are added or one is deleted -- in a single Notes section at the end of the article. If no one has an objection to or better suggestion for this (?) I'll do it.

--Kessler 16:27, 9 June 2006 (UTC

The population of France was twice the size of Britain and Holland?[edit]

Was it twice the size of them put together, or twice the size of each? — Preceding unsigned comment added by 70.113.69.97 (talk) 18:24, 28 July 2011 (UTC)[reply]

History[edit]

how was the industries in france at the beginning of the 20th century 223.233.56.215 (talk) 05:19, 27 July 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Over-reliance on the Encyclopedia Brittanica[edit]

It is an acceptable source and is considered reliable. Existing citations should not be removed, but more academic citations should be added Elinruby (talk) 04:32, 16 August 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Did first-pass copy edit, needs another[edit]

May have missed additional problems with overlinking, use of ellipsis and dashes as punctuation, slightly strange word order and use of prepositions. Also extremely long; consider summary style. References could also use improvement. Elinruby (talk) 07:44, 16 August 2023 (UTC)[reply]