Millionaire: The Philanderer, Gambler, and Duelist Who Invented Modern Finance (26 page)

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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 de

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,

Lovell, Sir Salathiel

Luttrell, Narcissus

Mackay, Charles

Maine, Duc de

Manon Lescaut
(Prévost)

Mar, Lord

Marais (lawyer)

Marx, Karl

Massachusetts Bay Colony

Maximilian Emmanuel of Bavaria,
Elector

Mendez (moneylender)

Merchant Company

Mercoeur, Duchy of

Mère, Chevalier de

Middleton, George

Milken, Michael

Mille, Laurent de

“millionaire,” origin of word

Mirror of Folly,
The,

Mississippi Company (Company of the
West)
acquisitions of
Banque Royale taken over by
capitalization of
company sales offices of
compulsory registration of shares in
crime wave blamed on
decline of
devaluation of shares in
economic recovery and
foreign investors in
fortunes made in
futures trades in
headquarters of
investigation into
Law’s scheme for
loan-backed investments in
national debt and
official support of share price of
privilege granted for
and quest for settlers in Louisiana,
rags-to-riches stories and
reduction in number of shares in
royal holding in, bought back by
company
ships of
speculation frenzy and
symbols of wealth and
tax system and mint administered by
as threat to England
see also
Louisiana colony

money:
in ancient past
as functional medium
Law’s belief in
multiplicity of meanings of
trade related to supply of
wampum
see also
coinage; paper money

moneylending

Money and Trade Considered with a Proposal
for Supplying the Nation with Money,

Montagu, Lady Mary Wortley

Montesquieu, Charles S.

Morer, Thomas

Morse, Anthony

Murphy, Antoin

Neale, Thomas

Necker, Jacques

Newcastle, Duke of

Newgate prison

New Orleans

Newton, Isaac

Noailles, Duc de

Norris, John

Nouveau Mercure,

Oglethorpe, Fanny

Orléans, Philippe, Duc d’
bank collapse and
bank publicly supported by
devaluation furor and
Law’s bank scheme and
Law’s flight and
Law’s relationship with
Mississippi Company and
Parlement rebellion and
Regent Diamond and

Ormond, Duke of

Oxford, Earl of

Oyse, Marquis d’

Palatine, Princess

Palmstruch, Johan

paper money
and abolishing of coinage
Bank of England and
coin reserves and
collapse of Law’s system of
devaluation of
early uses of
ensuring use of
facility of making payments in
land reserves and
Law’s French bank schemes and
Law’s proposals on, for England
Law’s proposals on, for Scotland
pitfall of
public confidence in
reduction in supply of