… opinion as it existed under the Old Regime. 1 . Marcel Marion, Histoire Financière de la France depuis 1715, vol. 1 (Paris: A. Rousseau, 1914); Herbert Luethy, La Banque protestante en France de la révocation de l’édit de Nantes à la révolution, 2 vols. (Paris: SEVPEN, 1961); John Bosher, French Finances 1770-1795: From Business to Bureaucracy (Cambridge: Cambridge … the credit of M. Necker. 9 Necker, it turns out, had been petitioned at his home after the Royal Session by a swathe of Parisians who begged him to remain ‘faithful to the nation and the King, and to remain in the ministry’ ( Ibid .). …