Contents
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