Un enjeu géostratégique : l’implantation des industries d’armement sur la côte méditerranéenne française de 1871 à 1940

Abstract

Nabil Erouihane is interested in the geostrategic stake represented by the setting‑up of the industries of armament on the French Mediterranean Coast from 1871 till 1940.From the institution of the iiird Republic, France knows a period of big homogeneity in the fields of economy and strategy. In the strategic optic created by the imperialist policy, the Mediterranean Coast finds a special place in the hexagonal military thought. It meets the industrialistic mentality, more and more pregnant among the political, military and economic elites.It is with the arsenal of Toulon, modernized and enlarged on and on, that it finds the soonest to express. Other installations emerge, as Whitehead factories of torpedoes in Saint‑Tropez, in 1912 and Schneider factories in La Londe‑Les‑Maures, in 1908, both nationalized in 1937. The multiple and complex relations between the State and these industries, take place in the logic of the negotiation as much as in that of the domination.

Keywords

• France
• Mediterranean coast
• Toulon
• industries of armament
• geostrategy
• state policy