Cover -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction: Commerce, State-Building, and Republicanism in Old Regime France -- 1. Louis XIV, Marseillais Merchants, and the Problem of Discerning the Public Good -- 2. Between Republic and Monarchy: Debating Commerce and Virtue -- 3. France and the Levantine Merchant: The Challenges of an International Market -- 4. Plague, Commerce, and Centralized Disease Control in Early Modern France -- 5. Virtue Without Commerce: Civic Spirit During the Plague, 1720-1723 -- 6. Civic Religiosity and Religious Citizenship in Plague-Stricken Marseille -- 7. Postmortem: Virtue and Commerce Reconsidered -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- Q -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W -- Y.