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 deman...

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Main Author: Rowlands, Guy
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: London Palgrave Macmillan UK 2015, 2015
Series:Palgrave Studies in the History of Finance
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Collection: Springer eBooks 2005- - Collection details see MPG.ReNa
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