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INDEX
Academy of Sciences (France)
Amadeus, Victor
Amsterdam
as commercial capital of Europe
Anderson, Andrew
André, d’ (Mississippian)
Angelini (bank secretary)
Angell, Norman
Anne, Queen of England
Antin, Duc d’
archers
Argenson, Marc René de Voyer de
Paulmy, Marquis d’
Argyll, Duke of
Aubert, Jean
Baillie, George
“bank,” origin of word
Bank of Amsterdam
Bank of England
banking, in ancient past
Bank of Scotland
Banque Générale
attempt to bring down
banking services offered by, 116
building of public confidence in
flaws in plan for
granting of charter for
and Law’s proposals for private bank
and Law’s proposals for state bank
nationalization of
d’Orléans’s deposits in
selling of shares in
success of
Banque Royale
closing of
collapse of
flaws in
inadequate reserves of
investigation into
paper notes issued by
riots at
run on
taken over by Mississippi Company
Barbier (lawyer)
Barbon, Nicholas
Belle, Alexis Simon
Bentivoglio, Cardinal
Bergerie (banker)
Berkeley, George
Bernard, Samuel
Bernoulli, Jakob
Berry, Duchesse de
Bienville, de (Louisiana governor)
Bignon, Abbé
billets,
Bladen, Martin
Boswell, James
Bouchu, Madame de
Bourbon, Duc de
Law family given refuge by
Law’s edicts and
Bourbon, Duc de (cont.)
Law’s flight from France and
as Mississippi Company shareholder
Bourdon (stock dealer)
Bourse
Brussels, Law’s sojourn in
Buffett, Warren
Burges, Colonel
Buvat, J.
Byron, George Gordon, Lord
Cantillon, Bernard
Cantillon, Richard
Cardano, Gerolamo
Carignan, Prince of
Carriera, Rosalba
Carteret, Lord
Carthew, Thomas
Chamberlen, Hugh
Chamber of Justice
Chambers, Robert
Chamillard (French controller general)
Charles II, King of England
Charles Albert of Bavaria, Elector
Château d’Ivry
Chateauneuf, Marie-Anne de (“La
Duclos”)
Chaumont, widow
Chesneau, Charles
China, paper money in
Chirac (physician)
Cleghorne, George
clipping
coinage:
abolished in France
in ancient past
in common use at Law’s time
counterfeit or adulterated
exported from France
and limitations of gold and silver
as reserves for paper money
return to French reliance on
revaluations of
small-change
see also gold; silver
Colbert, Charles
Colloredo, Count
colonial America
see also Louisiana colony
Company of the West, see Mississippi
Company
Condé, Dowager Princess of
Coningsby, Earl
Conti, Prince