Dangerous and Dishonest Men: The International Bankers of Louis XIV's France [electronic resource] /
Rowlands, G.author.
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.
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Cover; Contents; Preface and Acknowledgements; List of Abbreviations; Maps; A Note on the French Coinage; 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
ConclusionAppendix: Principal Patterns of Bill of Exchange Transmission and Settlement; Notes; Select Bibliography; Index
Includes bibliographical references and index.
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.
Banks and banking.
Finance—History.
France—History.
Macroeconomics.
Banking.
Financial History.
History of France.
Macroeconomics/Monetary Economics//Financial Economics.