Chatriot, Alain <br/><br/>
Protecting the Consumers from Themselves 

 -  2006.<br/>							 
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<br/><br/> The history of consumer credit in the last half of the 20th century in France has not yet been studied very much. Here is a first synthesis that emphasizes the regulatory role of the State and the discourse and representations of the social players involved in credit. The legislative apparatus reflects both a long-held distrust and at the same time the increasing importance of the forms of credit beginning in the 1970s. The laws voted to fight excessive debt show that the question of credit regulation remains today.