Note 8 — MONEY MANIA.—THE MISSISSIPPI SCHEME.
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The following squib was circulated on the occasion: “Foin de ton zèle séraphique, Malheureux Abbé de Tencin, Depuis que Law est Catholique, Tout le royaume est Capucin!” Thus somewhat weakly and paraphrastically rendered by Justandsond, in his translation of the Memoirs of Louis XV.: “Tencin, a curse on thy seraphic zeal, Which by persuasion hath contrived the means To make the Scotchman at our altars kneel, Since which we all are poor as Capucines!” Return