Dangerous and dishonest men : the international bankers of Louis XIV's France / Guy Rowlands.
At the start of the eighteenth century Louis XIV needed to remit huge sums of money abroad to support his armies during the War of the Spanish Succession. For this essential task the French government turned to the services of a number of leading international bankers, men who could provide foreign...
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Palgrave Macmillan,
2014.
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Table of Contents:
- Introduction
- PART I: FRANCE, FOREIGN EXCHANGE AND THE LOGISTICS OF INTERNATIONAL REMITTING
- 1. The French Monarchy and the Foreign Exchange System in the Era of Louis XIV
- 2. The Logistical Geography of French Remitting
- 3. The Price of Foreign Exchange
- PART II: THE ROAD TO RUIN: FRENCH REMITTANCE BANKING IN THE WAR OF THE SPANISH SUCCESSION
- 4. The Gathering Storm: The Development of a Remittance System, 1700-06
- 5. Overloading Atlas: Samuel Bernard and the Crisis of French Banking
- Conclusion.