Note 13 — MONEY MANIA.—THE MISSISSIPPI SCHEME.
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The Duchess of Orleans gives a different version of this story; but whichever be the true one, the manifestation of such feeling in a legislative assembly was not very creditable. She says that the president was so transported with joy, that he was seized with a rhyming fit, and, returning into the hall, exclaimed to the members: “Messieurs! Messieurs! bonne nouvelle! Le carrosse de Lass est reduit en cannelle!” Return