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Dangerous and Dishonest Men: The International Bankers of Louis XIV's France
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. This book explains how international bankers moved French money across Europe, and how the foreign exchange system was so overloaded by the demands of war that a massive banking crash resulted.
Provincial Magistrates and Revolutionary Politics in France, 1789-1795
Dawson contributes research findings to the historical controversy over the political motives and conduct of the upper bourgeoisie during the French Revolution, treating magistrates' activities as members of corporate groups before 1790 and following many of them as individuals through the revolutionary years to 1795.
The Financial Decline of a Great Power
An examination of the financial decline of Louis XIV's France during the War of the Spanish Succession (1701-1714).
