La Bibliotheque de la Chambre de Commerce et d'Industrie de Bordeaux

throughout the provincial cities of France. The library of the Chambre de Commerce et d'Industrie de Bordeaux is one of the most important of these provincial research centers. It possesses the largest book collection of any French chamber of commerce outside of Paris, and among its holdings is an assortment of books published from the seventeenth to twentieth centuries of particular interest to historians. The historical scholar also should find it a rather pleasant experience to pursue research at the Chambre de Commerce et d'Industrie de Bordeaux, which is located in the north wing of the Palais de la Bourse, a recently refurbished and quite impressive eighteenthcentury Bordelais landmark. A royal decree of 1705 authorized the creation in Bordeaux of the Chambre de Commerce de Guyenne, the sixth chamber of commerce to be founded in France. The Chambre de Commerce de Guyenne was suppressed during the Revolution, only to be re-established in 1802 by Napoleon under the title of the Chambre de Commerce de Bordeaux. When the Bordeaux

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