Planning the French Canals: The “Becquey Plan” of 1820–1822

Reed Geiger

The Journal of Economic History, 1984, vol. 44, issue 2, 329-339

Abstract: France's canal age was largely the outgrowth of the plan proposed by François Becquey, the state administrator who orchestrated a successful campaign to convince influential Frenchmen that a nationwide canal network was one of the essential tasks of their generation. As Becquey originally conceived his plan, canal building would directly contribute to economic growth and help foster a spirit of business enterprise. In the end he had to settle for a scheme under which the government paid a steep price to a handful of financial consortia for the right to assume all the risks and costs of building and operating the system itself.

Date: 1984
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