L'argent du sel: Le sel de l'argent, by Daniel Dessert
L'argent du sel: Le sel de l'argent, by Daniel Dessert
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Largent du sel:Le sel de largent,作者:Daniel Dessert
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10.1093/ehr/ceu223
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2014
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In his previous work, Dessert coined the term système fisco-financier to describe the financial system of Bourbon France, in which the financiers used the revenue from taxation to underpin the loans they raised from the public or their clients to fund the French war effort. Three groups were involved in the business of the ferme générale des gabelles. The general farmers, who collectively administered the ferme générale, were paid salaries and enjoyed benefits proportional to their personal investment in the capital of their company. The bailleurs de fonds were silent partners who helped the general farmers to gather the capital, and, as such, participated in the benefits but had no administrative responsibilities. A third group was made of lenders (prêteurs) who were willing to lend their savings to the farmers-general, who drew on this resource to meet the government’s regular demands for cash advances. After painstaking research conducted in the Paris notarial archives, Dessert concludes that about 900 to 950 individuals were involved in the business of the salt tax and that they lent some 29 million livres between 1632 and 1662. He is the first to produce such figures, and these can now be compared with Ann Murphy’s study of investors in the late-seventeenth-century english capital market. Not unlike Murphy, Dessert shows that the largest investors (those contributing at least 100,000 livres tournois) came from the families