The French oil industry and the Corps des mines in Africa
By: Douglas A. Yates.
Publisher: Africa World Press
Published: 2008
Place of publication: Trenton, NJ
Language: eng
Number of pages: 259
Subjects: France. -- Corps des mines -- Biography; Petroleum industry and trade -- France -- Biography
Genres: Biography.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Family firms; title: Burial of the dead : Le Bel family of Péchelbronn; title: Cartel des Dix : Desmarais Frères of Paris; title: Birth of geophysics : Conrad and Marcel Schlumberger; title: National champions; title: Compagnie française des pétroles : Ernest Mercier; title: Mort pour la france : Jean Bichelonne; title: Total resurrection : Victor de Metz; title: The general's oil : Pierre Guillaumat; title: The Dauphin : René Granier de Lilliac; title: Private multinationals; title: The resistance : Albin Chalandon; title: The Corsican : François-Xavier Ortoli; title: The sorcerer's apprentice : Michel Pecqueur; title: Black sheep : Serge Tchuruk and Loïk le Floch-Prigent; title: The last battle : Philippe Jaffré and Thierry Desmarest.