Contraband: Louis Mandrin and the Making of a Global Underground
By Michael Kwass (NHC Fellow, 2001–02) Louis Mandrin led a gang of bandits who brazenly smuggled contraband into eighteenth-century France. Michael Kwass brings new life to the legend of this Gallic Robin Hood and the thriving underworld he helped to create. Decades before the storming of the Bastille, surging world trade excited a revolution in consumption that … Continued