Romance of the History of Louisiana a Series of Lectures
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It was further provided that the laws, ordinances, customs, and usages of the Prevostship and Viscounty of Paris should form the legislation of the colony. There was also to be a government council, similar to the one established in San Domingo and Martinique. CONDITIONS OF THE CHARTER. 153 This charter of concessions virtually made Crozat the supreme lord and master of Louisiana. Thus Lou- isiana was dealt with, as if it had been a royal farm, and leased by Louis the XlVth to the highest bidde...r. It is a mere business transaction, but which colors itself with the hue of romance, when it is remembered that Louisiana was the farm, Louis the XlVth the landlord, and that Anthony Crozat was the farmer. Anthony Crozat was one of those men who dignify commerce, and recall to memory those princely mer- chants, of whom Genoa, Venice, and Florence boasted of yore. Born a peasant's son, on the estate of one of the great patricians of France, he was, when a boy, remarked for the acuteness of his intellect ; and having the good fortune of being the foster brother of the only son of his feudal lord, he was sent to school by his noble patron, received the first rudiments of education, and at fifteen was placed, as clerk, in a commercial house.
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