Chemin de Fer du Nord organization

“Major 19th-century businesses founded with Rothschild family capital include: Chemin de Fer du Nord (1845)…”

“Yet already Heine sounded a characteristically ambivalent note of warning when he considered the political influence which the railways were conferring on those who built them.…”

“Heine was not alone in portraying James’s mutation into a railway baron in an essentially light-hearted light.…”

“You cannot make a regiment of French frogs in a minute…”

“what an impression it makes in Paris.…”

“the collapse of a viaduct on the line from Rouen to Le Havre interested James primarily because of its likely impact on the share price.…”

“the collapse of a viaduct on the line from Rouen to Le Havre interested James primarily because of its likely impact on the share price.…”

“Anthony and his brothers’ primary concern was to limit the damage to the Nord share price by intervening on the Paris market…”

“They will write to you to night to engage 12 very first rate Engine Drivers . . . They have decided upon making the line wider in a great many places & put down more [sleepers?] and to support the rails & to have the line again looked at.…”