Description

Scarce book. French text throughout.

Taking as a common thread the future of an original French automobile brand in more than one respect (“Ariès”), and the professional career of one of the great figures of the French automobile world of the first half-century (Baron Petiet), the book often revives in detail – often year by year – the political, economic, social, technical context in which, from 1900 to 1940, the French automobile industry and technique have developed and developed against their tide.

A crucial period, marked by the First World War and the economic crisis of the 1930s, but also a period of unprecedented industrial and technical momentum. It was an “adventure in a hundred different acts”, an adventure that the automobile industry, more than any other, lived intensely, passionately, serving as a ferment and often a guide. Medium-sized companies, such as the Automobiles company “Ariès”, and enterprising industrialists, such as Baron Petiet, have been the brilliant players. This book bears witness to them, as well as at the time of which they remain, more than half a century away, “great witnesses.

Hardback in generally very good condition for age with good self cover.