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Law’s notes become official tender.--The Mississippi Scheme projected.--Early explorers of Mississippi territory.--Establishment of the West India Company.-- Its absorption of depreciated _billets d’état_.-- D’Argenson appointed Chancellor of France, and attempts extinction of National Debt.--Law innocently involved in D’Argenson’s fatal scheme.--Saved from arrest by Regent.--The brothers Paris and an anti-system.