This session explores practices of counterfeiting and fraud in France and its North American colonies in the eighteenth century. Catherine Desbarats details the ways in which subjects of the French king in North America forged or altered various monetary devices throughout the eighteenth century, including i.o.u.'s scribbled on playing cards, handwritten transatlantic bills of trade, and printed public credit instruments. Turning to the metropole, Jill Walshaw relies on police reports, expert investigations, and trial records to uncover the ingenious ways that forgers produced counterfeit coins that entered circulation throughout the kingdom. Finally, Jeffrey Ravel exams over one hundred raids conducted by royal officials in businesses and private residences in and around Paris in the late 1770s and 1780s in search of "fraudulent" playing cards. The decks of cards they discovered were perfectly valid for gaming purposes, but had been manufactured or reconstituted in ways that avoided the stamp tax the state levied on this consumer item. These papers will appeal to historians interested in the legal and economic history of eighteenth-century France, Europe, and its colonies; to those interested in eighteenth-century material culture in the Atlantic World; and to those interested in issues of fraud, forgery, and counterfeiting in the pre-modern era.