In the red and in the black : debt, dishonor, and the law in France between revolutions / Erika Vause.
The France of Balzac's day was an unforgiving place for borrowers. Each year, thousands of debtors found themselves arrested for commercial debts. Those who wished to escape debt imprisonment through bankruptcy sacrificed their honor-losing, among other rights and privileges, the ability to vot...
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Charlottesville ; London :
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Table of Contents:
- Introduction
- Pt. 1. A revolution in commercial personhood: Hard contracts and hard money: honor, commerce, and Debtors' Prison during the French Revolution. The blessing of being judged: bankruptcy and the Napoleonic Codes
- Pt. 2. The paradoxes of failure: Risky business: banqueroute, faillite, and the culture of credit. A palace of debt: constructing the Debtors' Prison. The economy of discredit: Jean-Baptiste Bayle-Mouillard and the crusade against debt Imprisonment
- Pt. 3. Remaking commercial personhood: Bankruptcies without bankrupts: commercial personhood in an age of speculation. A discount on the future: 1848 and the remaking of financial responsibility
- Epilogue.