CHAPTER XCIX

The Mississippi Scheme.--Law Offers Me Shares.--Compensation for Blaye.--

The Rue Quincampoix.--Excitement of the Public.--Increased Popularity of

the Scheme.--Conniving of Law.--Plot against His Life--Disagreement with

Argenson.--Their Quarrel.--Avarice of the Prince de Conti.--His

Audacity.--Anger of the Regent.--Comparison with the Period of Louis

XIV.--A Ballet Proposed.--The Marechal de Villeroy.--The Young King Is to

Dance.--Young Law Proposed.--Excitement.--The Young King's Disgust.--

Extravagant Presents of the Duc d'Orleans.

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