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PROVINCIAL BANKS

The development of the activity, born of the Industrial Revolution, caused the creation of banks of a new type, for all, called deposit banks. Banks were thus created in Bordeaux, Le Havre, Lille, Lyon, Marseilles, Nantes, Orleans, Rouen, Toulouse. In 1848, they were absorbed by the Banque de France which also created 47 branches in Montpellier, Saint-Étienne, Saint-Quentin, Reims, Avignon, Besançon, Angoulême, Grenoble, Clermont-Ferrand, Châteauroux, Caen, Mulhouse, Strasbourg, Le Le Mans, Valenciennes, Rennes, Nîmes, Metz, Angers, Nevers, etc..