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Good Offices: Intermediation by Corporate Bodies in Early Modern French Public Finance

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  26 July 2012

Mark Potter
Mark Potter
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Mark Potter is Assistant Professor, Department of History, University of Wyoming, Laramie, WY 82071-3198. E-mail: mpotter@uwyo.edu.
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Abstract

The old-regime monarchy, particularly during the reign of Louis XIV, did much of its borrowing through the mediation of privileged corporate bodies that sought lenders on the private market and then acted as guarantors against royal default. After comparing the creditors of various privileged bodies and considering the reasons why some were more successful than others in attracting a wide circle of creditors, this study argues for a reconsideration of the constitutional-absolutist dichotomy in the historiography of the early modern financial revolution.

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The Journal of Economic History , Volume 60 , Issue 3 , September 2000 , pp. 599 - 626
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Copyright © The Economic History Association 2000

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