John Law of Lauriston Financier And Statesman Founder of the Bank of France O
John Law of Lauriston Financier And Statesman Founder of the Bank of France O
A W Wiston Glynn
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While Law was publicly carrying through transactions in such a manner as to rouse enthusiasm and inspire confidence in his projects, he was also at the same time engaged in securing by every possible means the good offices of those in high places without whose favourable support his plans would not likely reach maturity. The Due de Saint-Simon reveals the nature of the efforts by which Law endeavoured to engage the good opinion of himself and others. 'VLaw, " he says, "often pressed me to recei...ve some shares for nothing, offering to manage them without any trouble to me, so that I must gain to the amount of several millions. So many people had already gained enormously by their own exertions that it was not doubtful Law could gain for me even more rapidly. But I never would lend myself to it. Law addressed himself to Madame de Saint-Simon, whom he found as inflexible. He would have much preferred to enrich me than 72 JOHN LAW OF LAURISTON many others, so as to attach me to him by interest, intimate as he saw me with the Regent.
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