On the representations of Lorenzo Tonti, inventor of the tontine
Sur les représentations de Lorenzo Tonti, inventeur de la tontine
Christian Rietsch ()
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Christian Rietsch: LEO - Laboratoire d'Économie d'Orleans [2022-...] - UO - Université d'Orléans - UT - Université de Tours - UCA - Université Clermont Auvergne
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Abstract:
From a work from 1936, we have had an engraved portrait of Lorenzo Tonti, a typical seventeenth-century projector and inventor of the tontine, a financial arrangement based on the risk of death. We also found his face in a genre scene that appeared in a film made by the oldest promoter of this type of arrangement, Le Conservateur. We show that these two representations are false, that the first is the engraving depicting, long after his death, a German intellectual, Professor Morhof, and that it is this portrait that is later inlaid in a reproduction of a famous painting made to the glory of Louis XIV.
Keywords: Tonti; Tontine (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2025-06-15
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DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.15622849
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