This sophisticated 1998 study describes the origins, production, and marketing of brandy from the Cognac region in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries and discusses the role played by foreign houses such as Martell and Hennessy. While Professor Cullen focuses largely on the brandy trade, his findings contradict the view of a 'static' French economy in the eighteenth century.

An economic study of the brandy trade, its merchants, and its impact on the French economy under the ancien regime.