French Policy and American Investments in France

“Les investissements américains dans la C.E.E.,” Problèmes Economiques, pp. 6–10.

Hoffman Stanley , In Search of France, (Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1963). Also, Crozier Michel , The Bureaucratic Phenomenon, (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1963).

“La Politique Française en matière d'investissements étrangers,” Crédit du Nord, III, 1970.

Jacoby Neil , “The Multinational Corporation,” The Center Magazine, (May, 1970), p. 48.

Schmill Erick , Les Investissements étrangers en France, (Paris: Editions Cujas, 1966), p. 91.

Les Investissements étrangers en Europe, (Paris:Dunod, 1968).

In his inaugural speech to the French Parliament in 1969: “Débloquer la Société française.”

“Establishing a Business in France,” Overseas Business Reports, (Dec., 1968), p.5.

Layton Christopher , “L'Europe et les investissements américains, (Paris:Gallimard, 1968).

Gervais Jacques , La France face aux investissements étrangers, (Paris: Editions de l'Entreprise Moderne, 1963), p. 185.

“Les Investissements americains en Europe sont payés par. … les Européens,” Le Monde, (April 19, 1970).

Entreprise 807, (Feb. 27, 1971).

U.S. News and World Report (June 7, 1971), p. 22.

These comments were part of the opening statement of the report on “financial management” of multinational firms, prepared by J.C. Genton, the financial director for the Compagnie Française des Petroles, for the Government Planning Authority's Committee on Industrial Financing. Since this article was written, the French Government, on October 20, 1971, enacted regulations facilitating French investments abroad.

Entreprise, p. 54.

In February, 1972, in Bordeaux, Jean de Broglie, President of the Foreign Affairs Committee of the House, declared that at present American firms in France controlled 40 percent of the oil distribution, 50 percent of the rubber industries, 65 percent of the manufacture of agricultural equipment, and 70 percent of the telecommunication business.