TY - BOOK AU - Rowlands,G. ED - SpringerLink (Online service) TI - Dangerous and Dishonest Men: The International Bankers of Louis XIV's France T2 - Palgrave Studies in the History of Finance, SN - 9781137381798 AV - HG1501-3550 U1 - 332.1 PY - 2015/// CY - London PB - Palgrave Macmillan UK, Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan KW - Banks and banking KW - Finance-History KW - France-History KW - Macroeconomics KW - Banking KW - Financial History KW - History of France KW - Macroeconomics/Monetary Economics//Financial Economics N2 - 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 UR - https://s443-doi-org.br.lsproxy.net/10.1057/9781137381798 ER -