French Speaking Worlds: Lauren Clay - A Crisis of Representation: Chambers of Commerce, Empire, and the Politics of Grievance on the Eve of the French Revolution

Please join French Speaking Worlds: Then and Now for A Crisis of Representation: Chambers of Commerce, Empire, and the Politics of Grievance on the Eve of the French Revolution, a talk with Lauren R. Clay (Vanderbilt University). Abstract: In the 1780s, France's chambers of commerce, institutions that provided a measure of political voice and status for elite commercial capitalists, felt increasingly besieged. Royal decrees and treaties refashioned trade relations with the Caribbean colonies (1784), South and East Asia (1785), and England (1786) in ways that appeared to threaten their economic