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The area of Voiron (Isère) now lies between two industrial regions within which the pattern of development and the strategies of firms are very different. Adapting to this new situation depends on the economic action of the local authorities. Study of the way in which such authorities intervene, however, suggests, that it is the local industrial firms which determine public investment policy
Keywords: economic action, industrial territory, local authorities, Industries, Voiron area, public financial policy, firm strategy, Industries, collectivités locales, territoire industriel, stratégie d'entreprise, Pays Voironnais, action économique, financement public
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An attempt to give to the geographer, newcomer in microcomputing, a wide view upon the reasons and the ways to use a microcomputer. The first part analyses the structure of a microcomputer and its peripherals, with a special attention to graphic devices and reviews the different levels of software. The second part gives an idea of the numerous occasions where a microcomputer can be useful to the geographer: instrumentation, collecting and processing data, efficient communication of results or geographical knowledge, C.A.I. included.
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France, and especially the port of Nantes have had a remarkable commercial rise during the eighteenth century. Wars disturbed only punctually this prosperity, based on a trade system between Atlantic frontage, Africa and America. The after-war period of Sept Ans symbolizes a renewal: men, neophytes for most of them, embarked into maritime adventure and became the most powerful individuals in the commercial place of Nantes, right before the French Revolution. Louis Drouin is an emblematic figure of this new ports' elite of the old regime. How one should characterize this elite ? How could trading and equipping ships enrich these men effectively and promptly ? By which means did they succeed in their business concerns ? Louis Drouin followed a strategic progression. First of all, he got associated to two other merchants to begin in the ship commission, in order to save money and raise a private capital. He then combined to an intensive « droiture » ship commission to Saint-Domingue, a slave commission that was less audacious but really effective. Moreover, his knowledge of Saint-Domingue and his extended relations in the town of Saint Marc, established while living there for fourteen years, gave him undeniable ability for trading with the American islands. Louis Drouin's case allows deep investigations about merchants' minds of the end of the old regime and to understand the role of the French Revolution in the disintegration of the maritime and colonial wealth.