In the red and in the black : debt, dishonor, and the law in France between revolutions /
The France of Balzac's day was an unforgiving place for borrowers. Each year, thousands of debtors found themselves arrested for commercial debts. Those who wished to escape debt imprisonment through bankruptcy sacrificed their honor-losing, among other rights and privileges, the ability to vot...
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Charlottesville :
University of Virginia Press,
2018.
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