![Call Number: VAULT Ayer MS 257 No.13 Map #208 p.355 Author: Dumont de Montigny. Title: Memoire de Lxx Dxx officier ingénieur, contenant les evenements qui se sont passes a la Louisiane depuis 1715 jusqu a present [manuscript] ainsi que ses remarques sur les moeurs, usages, et forces des diverses nations de l’Amerique Septentrionale et de ses productions. Physical Description: [227] leaves, bound : ill., coat of arms, maps, plates ; 27 cm. Summary: Journal of Dumont dit Montigny, French military officer and historian, written in France in 1747, which narrates events of his life between 1715 and 1747, including his experiences in Louisiana from 1719 to 1737. He fought in the attack on Pensacola, helped build forts in New Biloxi and Yazoo, explored the Arkansas River, and described in great detail the city of Natchez before the massacre of 1729. The second section of the memoir describes Louisiana, settlements, and Indian practices and customs. Photograph of Concession des Chaouachas appartenante cy devant a Mgr. le Duc de Belleisle et associez Dumont Dit Montigny Scan from 4x5 transparency film @ 1600 dpi](https://17202020financialcrises.files.wordpress.com/2017/10/montigny_chaouachas-concession.jpg?w=236&resize=236%2C158&h=158#038;h=158 "Montigny_Chaouachas-Concession")
ANNOUNCEMENTS AND FORTHCOMING EVENTS
Call for Papers, Eighteenth-Century Studies
Special Issue on the South Sea Bubble, Mississippi Bubble, and Financial Revolution
2020 marks the 300th anniversary of the crashing of the South Sea and Mississippi Bubbles, investment schemes – based on slavery, colonialism, and the need to fund standing militaries accompanying them through large-scale public borrowing – that caused a general international liquidity crisis, deflation, and depression. This special issue of Eighteenth-Century Studies seeks submissions exploring not only the consequences to Europe of this financial crisis, but also its global effects, particularly as they relate to empires of trade and administration. We are soliciting interdisciplinary papers that ask questions such as: How are empire and militarism connected to finance? In what ways were people as well as things financialized during this crisis? Was the mode of capitalism put into motion by the Financial Revolution of the early eighteenth century fundamentally racist and/or colonialist? How should our understanding of these bubbles be shaped not only by the politics that went into making them, but also the politics of the bailouts that followed? What role did publicity and propaganda in the print media play in these events, and how might literature, art, and other forms of humanistic expression be connected with it? As these questions demonstrate, we are seeking submissions that are both interdisciplinary in nature and international in scope, moving beyond considering the bubbles’ effects only in Britain and France and towards how those effects rippled throughout Europe, the Atlantic, and the globe.
Our goal is to publish this issue in 2020 to mark the anniversaries of the bursting of these bubbles. We therefore require submissions by June 1, 2019, to ensure that the review process of the manuscripts is complete by that time. Please submit to ec.studies@unh.edu, and feel free to contact the Editor, Sean Moore (sean.moore@unh.edu), about your ideas for this issue. Manuscripts should generally be between 7,500 and 9,000 words. A detailed list of submission guidelines can be found on the journal’s website: https://www.press.jhu.edu/journals/eighteenth-century-studies/author-guidelines
PUBLICATION
Arnaud Orain, La Politique du merveilleux: une autre histoire du Système de Law (1695-1795), Fayard, 2018.
Contrairement à ce que l’on a cru jusqu’ici, le « système » mis en place en France sous la régence du duc d’Orléans n’a pas été un accident provoqué par un génie solitaire, l’Écossais John Law. Il ne se résume en rien à une expérience financière qui se serait soldée par l’échec du billet de banque et la dérive spéculative.
Dans une relecture complète de cet épisode célèbre, Arnaud Orain révèle l’incroyable ambition du « système » qui visait à mettre en place un contrôle total de l’appareil d’État sur l’activité économique. Au carrefour des utopies et des rêves coloniaux élaborés depuis la fin du xviie siècle, grâce à une intense propagande faisant du « système » un conte merveilleux, ce grand Léviathan devait modifier intégralement l’organisation sociale du royaume et répondre à la montée inquiétante du libéralisme. Son écho allait traverser le siècle des Lumières jusqu’au grand orage de 1789.
Arnaud Orain est professeur à l’Institut d’études européennes de l’université Paris 8. Ses travaux portent sur l’histoire culturelle de l’économie politique.
https://www.fayard.fr/la-politique-du-merveilleux-9782213705880
PAST EVENTS
The Heyman Center for the Humanities, Columbia University, Monday, April 24, 2017
“Images de la Régence, Figures de la ‘Crise’?”
2èmes Rencontres « RÉGENT »
Thursday, November 9, 2017, 9 am – 6 pm, Paris, France
“Après la première journée d’étude consacrée aux portraits du Régent qui s’est tenue en septembre 2015, les organisateurs souhaitent creuser la question du politique au temps de Philippe II d’Orléans en ouvrant plus largement la réflexion à l’ensemble des représentations susceptibles de caractériser la notion de « crise » en ces temps troublés. L’un des aspects évoqués sera celui de la crise économique et politique, celle induite par le système de Law ou encore celle consécutive aux modifications introduites dans la conception du pouvoir. Une autre concernera le « système des arts », tant en ce qui a rapport au pouvoir qu’à la nouvelle conception de l’individu. En cela, une mise en question de ce qu’on a pu appeler la « crise de la conscience européenne » (Paul Hazard) s’imposera.”
Université Paris I Panthéon-Sorbonne, Salle Vasari
Galerie Colbert, salle Giorgio Vasari
Institut national d’histoire de l’art
2, rue Vivienne ou 6 rue des Petits Champs
75002 Paris
Contact: Valentine Toutain-Quittelier (valentinetoutain@yahoo.fr)
Boom, Bust, and Beyond: New Perspectives on the 1719-20 Stock Euphoria
Conference, April 11 – 13, 2018, University of Tübingen, Germany
Sponsor: program of the Collaborative Research Center (923) “Threatened Order – Societies under Stress”.
The conference aims to bring together scholars working on the many aspects of the 1719-20 stock euphoria. It will provide a forum for discussing recent and ongoing research.
Organizing committee: Stefano Condorelli (Bern), Renate Dürr (Tübingen), and Daniel Menning (Tübingen).
Boom Bust Beyond – Conference program
“New Orleans, Global City (1718-2018): The Long Shadow of John Law and the Mississippi Bubble”
Thursday – Friday, April 26 – 27, 2018, Boulder, Colorado, USA
Inaugural conference of the 18th- & 19th-Century Studies Network, University of Colorado Boulder, USA
Contact: Catherine Labio, catherine.labio@colorado.edu
The Pan-European Crises of 1719-1720: New Perspectives on the Nature of Financial Behaviour
Three-hour session at the XVIII World Economic History Congress, Massachusetts, July 29 – August 3, 2018.
CFP deadline: 15 December 2017. Click here for full details
History of Finance 