Robert Howell Griffiths (1940-2024)
From the moment of its annexation to France in 1795, the département of Ourthe – composed chiefly of the former territories of the principalities of Liège and Stavelot-Malmedy – became one of the centers of arms production for supplying the armies of the Republic, then the Empire. Liège’s arms indus...
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2024
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| Zusammenfassung: | From the moment of its annexation to France in 1795, the département of Ourthe – composed chiefly of the former territories of the principalities of Liège and Stavelot-Malmedy – became one of the centers of arms production for supplying the armies of the Republic, then the Empire. Liège’s arms industry, renowned throughout Europe under the Ancien Régime, suffered from the political and military context of the Revolutionary and Napoleonic wars. The French State’s interference in the arms industry proved unfavorable for the people of Liège, commercially and economically. The establishment of national factories curbed the free competition from which Liege’s merchant-manufacturers and entrepreneurs had benefited until the annexation. Production was mainly oriented towards weapons of war, while civilian arms could no longer be sold in foreign markets. Supported by a militarization previously unknown in Liège’s industry, the working environment was gradually transformed under the constraints of a State increasingly avid for skilled labor and eager to control its mobility. |
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