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For a long time,many historians and economists have assumed the mediocrity and theretardation of the economic growth in modern France as compared with other Western industrial nations. This thesis insists that we can’t judge French economic development by the extent to which it conformed to the British ’paradigm’,and that the economic growth in modern France was another pattern. The main characteristic of French economic growth is itsgradualness. The economic growth in nineteenth-century was relatively regular,progressiveand without ’take-off’. Its evolution can be divided into three stages: rapid-slow-rapid. Butthe changes of rhythms were gradual. The path of French economic growth was also punctuated by economic crises that had different types: crisis of subsistence,crisis of surplus andcrisis of ’intermediary’. Over the long run,the rate of French economic growth was comparable to England and Germany. Also,the comparison of the growth rates per capita was morefavorable to France. Otherwise,the productivity of labour in French industry remained aboveBritish levels untill the twentieth century. In the particular case of France,the gradual,pattern of economic growth had its own merits.
For a long time, many historians and economists have the mediocrity and theretardation of the economic growth in modern France as compared with other Western industrial nations. This thesis can we judge French economic development by the extent to which it conformed to the British ’paradigm’, and that the economic growth in modern France was another pattern. The main characteristic of French economic growth is itsgradualness. The economic growth in nineteenth-century was relatively regular, progressiveand without ’take-off’. Its evolution can The path of French economic growth also also punctuated by economic crises that had different types: crisis of subsistence, crisis of surplus and crisis of ’intermediary’. Over the long run, the rate of French economic growth was comparable to England and Germany. Also, the comparison of the growth rates per capita was morefavorable to France. Ot herwise, the productivity of labor in French industry still aboveBritish levels untill the twentieth century. In the particular case of France, the gradual, pattern of economic growth had its own merits.