Memorials presented by the deputies of the council of trade in France to the royal council in 1701 [electronic resource] : being the year after the establishment of the said council of trade by King Lewis XIV : concerning the commerce of that nation to their American islands, Guinea, the Levant, Spain, England, Holland, and the North : the raising nominally the value of the coin, and the effects that has upon commerce : the granting of monopolies : the erecting of exclusive companies : and other chief points of trade