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carried on in the small towns round Paris ; the making 

 of fine straw hats ; glass cutting, and painting on glass 

 and china ; and numerous workshops for fancy buttons, 

 attire in mother-of-pearl, and small goods in horn and 

 bone. 



W. RESULTS OF THE CENSUS OF THE 

 FRENCH INDUSTRIES IN 1896. 



If we consult the results of the census of 1896, 

 that were published in 1901, in the fourth volume of 

 R&ultats statistiques du recensement des industries et des 

 professions, preceded by an excellent summary written 

 by M. Lucien March, we find that the general im- 

 pression about the importance of the small industries 

 in France conveyed in the text is fully confirmed by 

 the numerical data of the census. 



It is only since 1896, M. March says in a paper 

 read before the Statistical Society of Paris, that a 

 detailed classification of the workshops and factories 

 according to the number of their operatives became 

 possible ; * and he gives us in this paper, in a series 

 of very elaborate tables, a most instructive picture of 

 the present state of industry in France. 



For the industries proper including the industries 

 carried on by the State and the Municipalities, but 

 excluding the transport trades the results of the census 

 can be summed up as follows : 



There is, first of all, an important division of " heads 

 of establishments (patrons) working alone, independent 

 artisans, and working-men without a permanent em- 

 ployment," which contains 1,530,000 persons. It has 



* Journal de la Soci&6 de Statistique de Paris, June 1901, 

 pp. 189-192, and " Besultats Generaux," in vol. iv. of the above- 

 mentioned publication. 



