A Concise History of the French Post Office: From Its Origins to the Present Time (Histoire de la Poste et des Communications / History of the Post Offices and Communications)

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.

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 20^th century, and the first curator or the French postal museum. I died in 1959.