TOFLIT18

Transformations of the French Economy through the Lens of International Trade

1716-1821

TOFLIT18 is a project dedicated to French trade statistics from 1716 to 1821. It combines a historical trade database that covers French external trade comprising more than 500,000 flows at the level of partners and individual products with a range of tools that allow the exploration of the material world of the Early Modern period.

TOFLIT18 is the result of the collaboration of data scientists, economists and historians. It started as a project funded by the Agence Nationale de la Recherche in 2014. http://toflit18.hypotheses.org

Explore Trade

Time series
Time series

Here, you can vizualize the evolutions of particular branches of French trade through time.

Products
Products

Here, you can vizualize lexicographic networks of commodities traded by France.

Partners
Partners

Here, you can vizualize geographical networks of French international trade.

Time series
Trade flows

Here, you can explore the trade flows as transcribed from the sources.

Data

Sources
Sources

Provides information on the sources and the methods used to create the TOFLIT18 database.

Metadata
Metadata

Provides visual tools to explore the coverage of the database (years, products, partners, locations...).

Classifications
Classifications

Provides tools to access and understand the product and partner classifications used in the TOFLIT18 database.

How to cite

General

Loïc Charles, Guillaume Daudin, Paul Girard, Guillaume Plique « Exploring the Transformation of French and European Trade and Economy in the Long Eighteenth Century (1713-1823): the TOFLIT18 Project », Historical Methods: A Journal of Quantitative and Interdisciplinary History, 55:4, p. 228-258 (2022) [DOI: 10.1080/01615440.2022.2032522]

Graphs and screen captures

You can re-use graphs or screen captures from the website under the licence CC-BY-SA 4.0. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/ Cite: Loïc Charles, Guillaume Daudin, Guillaume Plique and Paul Girard, TOFLIT18 website (insert here the year month day of consultation). Retrieved from: (insert here the permalink of the graph or screen capture).

Open Science

Tools produced in the TOFLIT18 project are in free access:

Source code of the exploration tool

The source code of this application is available on github under license AGPLv3 https://github.com/medialab/toflit18

TOFLIT18 corpus

The data you can extract from this webside are under ODbL license. http://opendatacommons.org/licenses/odbl/1.0/

The full data collected by the project is available under ODbL license on github https://github.com/medialab/toflit18_data, and as a Zenodo release. DOI.

Graphs and texts

Graphs, texts and screen captures from the site are under the licence CC-BY-SA 4.0. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/