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Title: John Law of Lauriston

Author: A. W. Wiston-Glynn

Release date: October 13, 2020 [eBook #63453]
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Language: English

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JOHN LAW OF LAURISTON

Copyright.]       [Emery Walker.

JOHN LAW OF LAURISTON.

From a portrait in the National Portrait Gallery, London.

John Law of Lauriston

Financier and Statesman

FOUNDER OF THE BANK OF FRANCE, ORIGINATOR OF THE
MISSISSIPPI SCHEME, ETC.

By A. W. WISTON-GLYNN, M.A.

EDINBURGH
E. SAUNDERS & Co., 52 NORTH BRIDGE STREET
Also at London and Dublin

Inscribed
to
My Wife.