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Dangerous and Dishonest Men: The International Bankers of Louis XIV's France
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Dangerous and Dishonest Men: The International Bankers of Louis XIV’s France

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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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Format
Paperback
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan
Country
United Kingdom
Date
1 January 2015
Pages
265
ISBN
9781349479740

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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Format
Paperback
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan
Country
United Kingdom
Date
1 January 2015
Pages
265
ISBN
9781349479740