Abstract
While the French can take only partial credit for the development of the gasoline engine, France was indeed the first home of the automobile industry. The year when the Duryea brothers built the first successful gasoline car in the United States, 1893, already was the Peugeot firm's fourth year of auto manufacturing. By the end of that year Peugeot had produced a total of 61 gasoline autos. The other pioneer French firm, Panhard et Levassor, began making cars in 1891 and turned out its 90th in 1893.' Until overtaken by the United States about 1906, France led the world in the num-
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