BASCULE PRESS

First English translations of lost French classics, sold for bitcoin.

The Free Banking Series · no. 1

Commercial Crises and the Freedom of Banking

Charles Coquelin

In production — first English translation, from the Revue des Deux Mondes, 1848.

Forthcoming

Free Banking

J.-G. Courcelle-Seneuil

The founding French treatise on free banking, 1867 — by the economist who drafted Chile's free-banking law. First English translation.

The Freedom of Labour (selected chapters)

Charles Dunoyer

The industrialist theory of liberty, 1845 — the book John Stuart Mill praised and nobody has ever translated. First English translation.

Treatise on Legislation

Charles Comte

The class theory of plunder that Bastiat built on, 1827. First English translation.

Bascule Press publishes first English translations of public-domain French liberal and free-banking texts that the English-speaking world has never read. Every book is sold for bitcoin over Lightning and on-chain, and delivered the moment payment settles.