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Small Ports from the Sixteenth to the Early Twentieth Century and the Local Economy of the French Atlantic Coast

French maritime history has targeted the great, the vast and the distant that is to say, elite merchants and officers, big ports, long-distance voyages and overseas territories but it has neglected the small ports interspersed among the larger ones. Moreover, the historiography has provided only a segmented history of the coasts, and the intermediate developments still need to be studied. Although scholars have done little to study the modest shipyards, coastal shipping, small-scale fishing and coastal populations, there are signs that work in these fields is beginning to bear fruit. It is through the social history of seafarers that small ports have been rediscovered. Research on maritime communities at the end of the 1980s has focussed on the "small hands" of maritime activities and what is known as the "myriad of ports." Spurred by Alain Cabantous' important research on maritime identities, French scholars have begun to work toward a better understanding of the relationship between maritime communities and the sea by examining the interdependence between members of coastal communities and by building on his insights into maritime identity. 1 Indeed, today this has become an asset for French historical studies. Advances have been made in two other long-neglected fields, small-scale coastal fishing (especially the sardine fishery) and coastal shipping. 1 On the latter topic, an essential step was taken with