Blaise Truong-Loï

I graduated from both the École normale supérieure and Sciences Po et I hold the “agrégation” in history.

I am working under the supervision of Nicolas Delalande on international financial controls in the late 19th century (e.g. the Ottoman Public Debt Administration, the Egyptian Caisse de la dette or the Greek International Financial Commission). These institutions managed the public revenues of states which had defaulted (or threatened to do so) on behalf of foreign bondholders. My dissertation studies their emergence and progressive standardization between the 1870s and 1914, an epoch marked by financial globalization and European imperial expansion. It focuses on connection which linked these organizations altogether and thus contributed to the rise of these original institutions on a global scale. Based on some case studies (mainly China and Morocco), I also explore how these institutions concretely reorganized local economies and administrations to guarantee regular payment of public debt to western creditors. 

From 2018 to 2021, I have also organized a monthly economic history seminar at the Ecole normale supérieure.

Last Publications

• Delalande, Nicolas et Blaise Truong-Loï. Histoire politique du XIXe siècle Presses de Sciences Po, pp. 422, 2021
• Truong-Loï, Blaise. 2020. "« L’Union sacrée de la finance et de la diplomatie » ?: Banquiers et diplomates européens en Chine à la fin de la dynastie Qing, 1895-1913." Monde(s) 17 (1): 199-220.
• Monnet, Eric and Blaise Truong-Loï. 2020. "The History and Politics of Public Debt Accounting." In A World of Public Debts: A Political History, ed. Nicolas Barreyre and Nicolas Delalande, 480-511. Londres: Palgrave Macmillan.
• Truong-Loï, Blaise. 2020. "Le billet de banque." In Le magasin du monde: La mondialisation par les objets, du XVIIIe siècle à nos jours, ed. Pierre Singaravelou and Sylvain Venayre, 307-311. Paris: Fayard.

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