1. D. Dessert and J-L Journot, ‘Le Lobby Colbert’, Annales, Économies, Sociétés, Civilisations, 30:6, pp. 1304–29, November–December 1975. Surprisingly the Gabelle has not yet attracted a large, sophisticated modern study. Of older books, I have relied on J. Pasquier, L’Impôt des Gabelles en France aux XVII
e
et XVIII
e
sipècles (Paris, 1905; Slatkine Reprints, Geneva, 1978); Of newer books, M. Delafosse and Cl. Laveau, Le Commerce de Sel de Brouage aux XVII
e
et XVIII
e
siècles (Armand Colin, Paris, 1960), and articles in Cabourdin. Unfortunately, Jean-Claude Hocquet, Le Sel et le Pouvoir, De l’An Mil à la Revolution francaise (Albin Michel, Paris, 1985), reached me too late to affect the main lines of this study.
2. Schurmann, p. 4; Ata-Malik Juvaini, The History of the World Conqueror, trns John Andrew Boyle, 2 vols (Harvard University Press, Cambridge, Mass., 1958) I, 209–10, II, 599–600, 605–6;
3. Parhs M. Coble, Jr., The Shanghai Capitalists and the Nationalist Government 1927–1937 (Council on East Asian Studies, Harvard University, Cambridge, Mass., 1980).
4. R. J. Knecht, Francis I (Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, 1982) p. 385.
5. J. F. Bosher, French Finances 1770–1795 from Business to Bureaucracy (Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, 1970) p. 305.