ABSTRACT
T H E I N T E R N A L R E G U L A T I O N O F I N D U S T R Y
IN F R A N C E
The regulation of handicraft and of industry in France, together with the measures regarding tolls, is the principal and most typical result of mercantilism in its struggle against the disintegration within the state. As far as external effects are concerned, the regulation of industry must be considered as more important than toll policy, since it became a pattern for all princes and statesmen, great and small, throughout the continent. Towards the close of the 17th and even more in the 18th century, Versailles was the lodestar for their every course of action. But the connection between France and her more or less servile imitators has little general interest-the important problem is the comparison between English and French development.
