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.
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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.
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Product Details
ISBN-13: | 9781137381798 |
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Publisher: | Palgrave Macmillan |
Publication date: | 11/20/2014 |
Series: | Palgrave Studies in the History of Finance |
Sold by: | Barnes & Noble |
Format: | eBook |
Pages: | 265 |
File size: | 946 KB |
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