Millionaire - Janet Gleeson [111]
copper
counterfeiting
Courtance, de (Savoy ambassador)
Coypel, Antoine
Craggs, James
Crawford (English diplomat)
credit-based financial systems
Crozat, Robert
Darien scheme
Defoe, Daniel
denier royal
Denmark
Derby, Earl of
Desmarets, Nicolas
Dillon, General
Drummond, John
Dubois, Guillaume
dueling
by Law
Dutch East India Company
Dutch West India Company
du Tot (bank officer)
East India and China Company
economics
Law’s fascination with
Edinburgh, Law family’s years in
Emerson, Ralph Waldo
England:
Law’s early years in
Law seen as threat to
Law’s return to
Law as undercover agent for
speculation in
“Essay on a Land Bank,”
Estrées, Maréchal d’,
Étampes, d’ (courtier)
Evelyn, John
Farmers General
faro
Fletcher, Andrew
France:
bank established by Law in see also Banque
Générale; Banque Royale
Chamber of Justice and punishments
in
economic recovery in
exchange rate decline and
financial crises in
foreign investors in
Law’s flight from
Law’s hopes of return to
Law’s sojourns in
migrant craftsmen in
national debt of
overseas trade and
see also Mississippi Company
plague outbreak in
revaluations in
taxes in
Gage, Joseph
Galbraith, J. K.
Galileo
galleys, as punishment
gambling:
by Law
lotteries and
probability theory and
Gazette de la Régence
General Receivers
Genonville, Nicolas de
George I, King of England
Gergy (French ambassador)
Germany, Law’s sojourns in
gold
coinage
edicts on sale, transport, or possession of
goldsmiths
Gray, W.
Greatbach, W.
Greg, William
Gresham, Sir Thomas
Gresham’s Law
Gruet (profiteer)
Guldenstein (Danish diplomat)
Halifax, Lord
Hautchamp, Barthélemy Marmont du
Herodotus
Hogarth, William
Holland
and Amsterdam’s role as commercial
capital of Europe
Law’s sojourns in
Tulipmania in
Holt, Sir John
Homberg, Wilhelm
Horn, Count Antoine Joseph de
Hôtel de Soissons
Hume, David
Ilay, Archibald, Earl of
Italy
Law’s sojourns in
Jacobites
James II, King of England
James, Henry
Johnson, Samuel
Johnston, James
King’s Bench Bar
King’s Bench prison
Lacroix (Mississippian)
la Force, Duc de
la Houssaye, Councillor Le Pelletier de
La Normande (profiteer)
La Richardière (stock dealer)
la Salle, Robert Cavalier de
Lassay, Marquis de
Lauzun, Duchesse de
Law, Alexander (great-nephew)
Law, Andrew (great-grandfather)
Law, Jean Campbell (mother)
Law, John:
arrest and imprisonment of
art collection of
assessment of
bank established in France by see also Banque
Générale; Banque Royale
birth and childhood of
death of
downfall of
in duel
economics as interest of
education of
in exile
family background of
fawned over by Parisians
financial problems of
fortune amassed by
French nationality adopted by
gambling of
generosity of
government posts held by
investigation into personal affairs of
lavish lifestyle of
local industry encouraged by
overseas trading company formed by see also
Mississippi Company
physical appearance of
political ambition of
portraits of
prison escape of
property portfolio of
public accolades for
public hatred for
religion of
royal pardon sought by
rumors about hidden riches of
sentenced to death
trial of
as undercover agent for English
vanity and egotism ascribed to
various spellings of name
will of
womanizing of
Law, John (grandfather)
Law, John (son)
Law, John (uncle)
Law, Mary Katherine (Kate) (daughter)
Law, Mrs. John, see Seigneur, Katherine,
née Knowles
Law, Rebecca Dives (sister-in-law)
Law, Violet Cleghorne
Law, William (brother)
Law, William (father)
Lawrence, Mrs.
Le Blanc, Claude
le Moyne d’Iberville, Pierre
Levinz, Sir Creswell
Lister, Martin
lit de justice
Lockhart, George
Lombards
London:
Law’s early years in
Law’s return to
Londonderry
London Journal,
lotteries
Louis XIV, King of France
Louis XV, King of France
Louisiana colony
deportations to
glossy depictions oftrading privilege with
see also Mississippi Company
Love Letters Between a Certain Late Nobleman
and the Famous Mr. Wilson,