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Introduction: Commerce, State-Building, and Republicanism in Old Regime France

1. Louis XIV, Marseillais Merchants, and the Problem of Discerning the Public Good

2. Between Republic and Monarchy: Debating Commerce and Virtue

3. France and the Levantine Merchant: The Challenges of an International Market

4. Plague, Commerce, and Centralized Disease Control in Early Modern France

5. Virtue Without Commerce: Civic Spirit During the Plague, 1720–1723

6. Civic Religiosity and Religious Citizenship in Plague-Stricken Marseille

7. Postmortem: Virtue and Commerce Reconsidered

Notes

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