Privilege and Profit : A Business Family in Eighteenth-Century France

This book is a volume in the Penn Press Anniversary Collection. To mark its 125th anniversary in 2015, the University of Pennsylvania Press rereleased more than 1,100 titles from Penn Press's distinguished backlist from 1899-1999 that had fallen out of print. Spanning an entire century, the Anniversary Collection offers peer-reviewed scholarship in a wide range of subject areas. Contents Preface Introduction: State and Family I. A Family in the Timber Business CHAPTER 1. A Family of Entrepreneurs: Jacques Masson, the Babauds, Marie Boesnier, and Duportal of Saumur CHAPTER 2. The Development of the Family Timber Business, 1728—1738 CHAPTER 3. Deaths and Survivors: Marie Boesnier, Pierre Babaud de la Chaussade, and the Ongoing Business II. The New Family Business: Forged Anchors, Irons, and Steel CHAPTER 4. The Formation of the Family Forges Royales CHAPTER 5. Procurement and Production, Transport and Payments CHAPTER 6. An Industrial-Seigneurial Labor Force CHAPTER 7. Chaussade: Agrarian and Industrial Lord III. Market Problems, Return to Timber, and Retirement CHAPTER 8. Markets for Anchors, Irons, and Steel CHAPTER 9. The Business in the Decade of the American War CHAPTER 10. Chaussade in Retirement: Real Estate and Revolution Epilogue: Comparisons and Reflections Notes Glossary Sources Bibliography Index