Les femmes et le commerce maritime à Nantes (1660-1740) : un rôle largement méconnu

Dufournaud, Nicole; Michon, Bernard

doi:10.4000/clio.1926

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“…Recently, a series of papers on both sides of the Atlantic treated them as evidence of trust put in wives by husbands travelling abroad. Poisson, ‘Introduction’; Sturtz, ‘Virginia women’; Dufournaud and Michon, ‘Les femmes et le commerce’; Cyr, ‘L'activité économique des femmes’; Grenier and Ferland, ‘Procurations et pouvoir féminin’; Palmer, ‘Women and contracts’. Lozano Salado, ‘Dos siglos’, traces the evolution of commercial activity in Cadix through powers of attorney.…”

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Beyond the personal–anonymous divide: agency relations in powers of attorney in France in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries

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Lemercier

Santarosa

2018

The Economic History Review

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Powers of attorney are often interpreted as evidence of trust among the parties involved. We build a novel dataset of notarized powers of attorney, capturing a wide variety of agency relationships in four large French commercial cities in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, to test hypotheses on the relational basis of economic relationships. We find little support for the idea of a radical shift from personal to anonymous relationships during our period. Our results point to more nuanced transformations. The preference for proxies in the same occupation as the principal somewhat declined, while professional proxies emerged and principals used relational chains, especially involving notaries, to find proxies.

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