[Analysis of the French urban structure: its development up to the beginning of the twentieth century and growth throughout the nineteenth century].
The author analyzes the evolution of the urban structure in France since the tenth century. The rural and urban populations in France are compared with those in the neighboring countries of England and Germany. Urbanization from the fourteenth to the nineteenth century is characterized as a hierarchization of the recently created urban structures into a network that controlled provincial life and formed the basis for a new administrative system. (ANNOTATION)