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Beyond Metaphor

Corporeal Sociability and the Language of Commerce in Eighteenth-Century Britain and France

Joseph D. Bryan

According to the Marquis de Mirabeau, in his popular L'ami des hommes (1756–1758), commerce was not simply the transportation and exchange of goods or activities of the market; it was akin to sociability: “Commerce is the useful and necessary connection of