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THE BANK CAPITALISM-oF YOUNG BENGAL 113
groups of the seven exhibited here owe their rationale to
convenienc,e rather than to logic.
The organisation of banking institutions in France.
then. comprises the following seven types:
I. Privileged Banks.
1. Banque -de France. established and constituted
1800~1809.
2. Credit Foncier de France (hypothec bank).
established and constituted 1852~ 1856. 2 4-
3. Credit National (for facilitating the reparation of
war~devasted regions).
4. Banques d' emission des colonies: colonial banks
pf issue or note~banks; 8 in number.
5. Banque Nationale F rancaise du commerce
exterieur (for foreign trade).
6. Institutions enjoying state subvention or other
.special privileges :
(a) banques populaires: nearly 90 in number,
(b) co-operative worki~g men's banks,
(c) agricultural credit banks: central, regional and
local: co~operative,
(d) maritime credit banks,
(e) land~banks.
11. Credit~banks with branches.
1. Credit Lyonnais, est. 1863.
2. Societe Generale, est. 1864.
,3. Comptoir National d'Escompte, est. 1852. recon"
. .
stituted 1889.
4. Banque Nationale de credit, est. 1913.
24 Kaufmann: Banque en France (Paris 1914). 'pp. 79·115.