Titlebook: Dangerous and Dishonest Men: The International Bankers of Louis XIV‘s France; Guy Rowlands Book 2015 Palgrave Macmillan, a division of Mac

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https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-44681-9 of the divide Louis XIV’s France — the goliath of the international stage — was burdened with the crippling task of defending the Spanish lands acquired by Louis’s grandson, Philippe, duc d’Anjou, while the financial machinery at the service of the Bourbon kings to support their defensive endeavour

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https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-011-7259-2nflict. This chapter will therefore lay out the key locations for French war-related remitting, the nodal points in and outside France from which further onward financing of the armies could occur. It will then look more closely at the ‘remittance corridors’ (to use the modern expression) down which

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https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-57132-9o support their operations, and how the pressures placed upon the banking system both by the king’s demands and by the manipulations of the bankers brought the French state’s entire remittance edifice crashing down in 1709.

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Introduction Bubble of 1719–20, but while it is often referred to by historians, economists and political commentators, the longer-term developments and crises that helped to make it possible remain shrouded in obscurity. Yet John Law’s System of those years was both thinkable and deemed necessary because of th