Marzagalli, Silvia <br/><br/>
Introduction 

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<br/><br/> This paper traces how France used economic decisions as a tool to increase its international position and to fight its enemies. In the second half of the eighteenth century, the Franco-British rivalry increasingly affected maritime navigation and resulted in restrictions which put almost an end to trade with the enemy and neutral shipping in the revolutionary and Napoleonic wars.