Labardin, Pierre - Université Paris-Dauphine (Paris IX) - 2011
Law of Bankruptcy, 1838, traders in France were under a legal obligation to keep accounts of their business activities. In … the event of bankruptcy, traders were potentially subject to severe sanctions for failure to comply. However, research … the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. Utilising 500 bankruptcy case files covering the period 1847 to 1887, contained …