79. France :The Enemy ; part 2

You can send a text, include contact info to get a response. The 2nd Hundred Years War arc continues. Louis XIV's Geo Strategy and and an exploration of the French government's financial system. A strange combination of topics? But no, the one explains necessary features and failures of the other. France is remarkably backward in financial matters compared to the Netherlands and Great Britain during the war of the Spanish Succession. And yet France has interesting financ...