At once with the development of money as medium of exchange, the feudal lords found out an easy way to obtain more monetary resources by monopolizing the coins’ mint. As result, they used to ask a certain percent from the gold quantity that people wanted to transform in coins (call brassage)....

Nicolas Fouquet, superintendent for the Financing system in France, was judged in December 1664, for the embezzlement of public funds. His process was not meant to be a glory for Louis XIVth : irregularities, tricks of evidences, pressures on witnesses have allowed the Court to partially give a...