Le temps de la route exclusive en France: 1780-1850

Jean-Marcel Goger

Histoire, économie & société, 1992, vol. 11, issue 4, 597-618

Abstract: [fre] Résumé «- Affermissons nos routes [...], rattachons à ces grandes voies nos innombrables villages perdus dans les terres», n'expérimentons qu'ensuite le chemin de fer. Voilà le raisonnement hégémonique qui maintient la France dans le retard ferroviaire, pour le Journal des économistes de 1842. De fait, depuis la création des Ponts-et-Chaussées, le transport français subit deux contraintes : le monomodalisme routier par échec des coordinations fluvial-route et l'ingénierie routière conçue comme prolongement commode de l'urbanisme. Providence commerciale, vecteur diffus du rayonnement urbain : l'opinion du Second Empire peine encore pour transférer mentalement ces deux qualités de la route vers le rail. [eng] Abstract «- We must strenghten our highways first, and we must link up our countless villages lost in the country to those important thoroughfares», after which only we'll test the railway system. According to the Journal of economists of 1842, such is the argument responsible for France belated railway system. As a matter of fact, since the creation of the «Ponts-et-Chaussées», french transportation has had to put up with two constraints : first the prevalence of the highway system due to the failure of connections between roads and water-ways, and secondly the conception of such a system as a mere extension of town planning. The Providence of trade, and the vehicle of urban radiance : the opinion of the Second Empire still finds it difficult to apply those two qualities of the highway system to a railway system.

Date: 1992
Note: DOI:10.3406/hes.1992.1652
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