1. Myriem Foncin (1931), ‘La Cité’, Annales de Géographie 40, 491;
2. Jacques Saint-Germain (1950), Les financiers sous Louis XIV. Paul Poisson de Bourvalais (Paris), pp. 137, 143; AN G71097: memorandum on exchange ‘a Paris pour Hollande’, n.d. [1708]. It is a neat irony that the fledgling bourse in the Hôtel de Soissons, where some funds were sourced for Louis XIV’s forces, had been the birthplace of Prince Eugène of Savoy — who, after Louis rejected him as a youth for service in the French army, went abroad and, commanding the Emperor’s armies, became one of the king’s military nemeses, together with Marlborough. The current Paris bourse stands roughly on the site of the old Hôtel de Soissons.
3. BNF Ms. Fr. 16756, fo. 155v: ‘Memoire sur la Generalité de Lyon dressé par Mr. D’Herbigny Intendant en l’année 1698’; Paul Einzig (1962), The History of Foreign Exchange (London), p. 107;
4. Marie-Thérèse Boyer-Xambeu, Ghislain Deleplace and Lucien Gillard (1994), Private Money and Public Currencies. The Sixteenth Century Challenge (London), pp. 15, 78, 85, 163–75, 192;
5. Françoise Bayard (1971), ‘Les Bonvisi, marchands banquiers à Lyon, 1575–1629’, Annales. Economies, sociétés, civilisations 26(6), 1260;