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This  blog is created in order to help develop research on the history of European financial markets in the 19th and 20th centuries, especially stock exchanges. It should serve as a tool for the participants of a research project under construction that aims at understanding the functionning of the European financial market as a whole, or as a number of interactions (to be specified) between national (or eventually local) financial markets, in particular a competition among stock exchanges.Any interested reader is welcome to post comments. All participants in the project should post messages as well as comments.Pierre-Cyrille Hautcoeur