From Sun to Earth : A History of Saint-Gobain

The story about to be told, necessarily synthetic, has 2 defining characteristics. It strives to relate the growth of a leading enterprise over more than three centuries, and to show how it was the nucleus of any number of powers, and a decision-making and policy-making center in environments that were often disturbing and never truly calm. Secondly, in the chapters focusing on more contemporary matters, it constitutes an exercise in near simultaneous history.