This edition is the first synthesis published in English, dealing with the general history of the postal services or the Post Office, in France, from the origins to the present time gathering different studies.

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Muriel Le Roux is senior researcher at the CNRS, at the Institute for Modern and Contemporary History CNRS-École normale supérieure-Paris 1, (France). Specialist in the history of science, technology and business, she has been responsible for coordinating the scientific programmes of the Comité pour l histoire de La Poste for many years. With a PhD in contemporary history, Sébastien Richez is an historian of the Comité pour l histoire de La Poste. He is studying the societal acculturation of the French Post office. Eugène Vaillé the first academic historian of the French Post Office, in the middle of the 20th century, and the first curator or the French postal museum. I died in 1959.

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Contents: Eugène Vaillé: The History of the French Postal Service to the Revolution - Eugène Vaillé: The History of the French Postal Service Since the Revolution - Muriel Le Roux/Sébastien Richez: Introduction (Brief History of the French Post Office Since 1945) - David Chauraud: The French Post Office and the State - Laurence Morgana: Organisation, Missions and Services of the French Post Office - Marie Cartier: Postal Workers - Bruno Mahouche: The French Post Office as a Social Laboratory - Sébastien Richez: The French Post Office: A Mediator - Bruno Mahouche: The French Post Office and Technical Developments - Camille Henri: The French Post Office: A Major Multimodal Carrier - Sébastien Richez: The French Post Office and its Territories - Léonard Laborie: The French Post Office, European Integration and Globalisation - Muriel Le Roux: At the Crossroads between Reform, Change and Strategy: the French Post Office in the 21st Century.