Instltut Louis Armand for C0MMENT 'enterprises of great pith and moment'

摘要

The late Louis Armand presided, with competence and charisma, over the decisive modernisation of the French Railways (SNCF) after the Second World War. The elan imparted by this seminal period has endured: today, few would dispute France's pre-eminence as a global pacesetter in railway services. It is quite thinkable that, within a decade, the TGV network {trains de grande vitesse) will speed passengers and freight between desti-nations as disparate as London and Liibeck or Barcelona and Budapest.