Here, 900 factories closed from 2009 to 2011: https://www.lemonde.fr/economie/article/2011/12/28/pres-de-900-usines-francaises-ont-ferme-en-trois-ans_1623272_3

Here, 900 factories closed from 2009 to 2011: https://www.lemonde.fr/economie/article/2011/12/28/pres-de-900-usines-francaises-ont-ferme-en-trois-ans_1623272_3234.html https://www.lemonde.fr/economie/article/2011/12/28/pres-de-9... This has been more or less the trend from 2001 to 2016. There was a slight upturn for 2017-2018, then it went down again in 2019.