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.

Author: G. Rowlands
Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan
Published: 11/14/2014
Pages: 265
Binding Type: Hardcover
Weight: 1.10lbs
Size: 8.60h x 5.60w x 0.90d
ISBN: 9781137381781

About the Author

Guy Rowlands is Reader in Early Modern History at the University of St Andrews, and has taught at Oxford, Cambridge, Bristol and Durham. A prize-winning author of books on French military and financial history, he has received several research fellowships from the British Academy and the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation.