Title: Privilege and profit : a business family in eighteenth-century France /
Authors: Bamford, Paul W. 1921-
Publisher: University of Pennsylvania Press,
Year: 1988
Subjects: Babaud de La Chaussade, Pierre,; Iron industry and trade France History; Industrialists France Biography
Contents: Introduction : State and family -- I. A family in the timber business -- 1. A family of entrpreneurs : Jacques Masson, the Babauds, Marie Boesnier, and Duportal of Saumur -- 2. The development of the family timber business, 1728-1738 -- 3. Deaths and survivors : Marie Boesnier, Pierre Babaud de la Chaussade, and the ongoing business -- II. The new family business : forged anchors, irons, and steel -- 4. The formation of the family forges royales -- 5. Procurement and production, transport and payments -- 6. An industrial-Seigneurial labor force -- 7. Chaussade : agrarian and industrial lord -- III. Market problems, return to timber, and retirement -- 8. Markets for anchors, irons, and steel -- 9. The business in the decade of the American War -- 10. Chaussade in retirement : real estate and revolution -- Epilogue : comparisons and reflections.