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

By Guy Rowlands

Book Overview

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... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1349479748
• ISBN13: 9781349479740
• Release Date: January 2015
• Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan
• Length: 265 Pages