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French History 2007 21(2):165-186; doi:10.1093/fh/crm007
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Money, majesty and virtue: the rhetoric of monetary reform in later sixteenth-century France

Mark Greengrass*

* The author is Professor of Early Modern History at the University of Sheffield. He may be contacted at m.greengrass{at}sheffield.ac.uk


  Abstract

Monetary inflation accompanied the period of the French civil wars of the later sixteenth century. It provoked an animated discussion among France's notables, especially its monetary experts. The debate is largely known through Jean Bodin's famous Response de Jean Bodin à M. de Malestroit (1568). This article seeks to recover the moral and intellectual dimensions of that debate, placing then in the context of how public policy was arrived at in this period. It analyses a lengthy memorandum on monetary issues, prepared for the Estates General of Blois (1576–1577). Hitherto ignored, it is ascribed here to Jean Bodin. The article situates the great monetary reform of September 1577 and the introduction of the écu as the French money of account, within the moral and intellectual frameworks which underlay wider attempts at the reformation and pacification of the French kingdom in this period.


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