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Millionaire: The Philanderer, Gambler, and Duelist Who Invented Modern Finance
Millionaire The Philanderer Gambler and Duelist Who Invented Modern Finance
Author: Janet Gleeson
On the death of France's most glorious king, Louis XIV, in 1715, few people benefited from the shift in power more than the intriguing financial genius from Edinburgh, John Law. Already notorious for killing a man in a duel and for acquiring a huge fortune from gambling, Law had proposed to the English monarch that a bank be established to issue...  more »
ISBN-13: 9781422364567
ISBN-10: 1422364569
Publication Date: 1/1/1999
Pages: 303
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Publisher: Touchstone-Simon & Schuster
Book Type: Paperback
Other Versions: Hardcover
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