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Philippe d'Orléans

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The Cabinet July 25, 2026 · Rue Quincampoix, Paris

John Law's Mississippi Bubble of 1720, the Scheme That Coined the Word 'Millionaire' and Broke France

John Law — Scottish gambler, convicted duellist, monetary theorist — persuaded Regency France to let him print paper money and fold the national debt into shares of his Mississippi Company. The 1719 mania coined the word 'millionaire'; the 1720 collapse ruined thousands, and France distrusted paper money and banks for generations.

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The Footnote June 26, 2026 · Mur de la peste, Cabrières-d'Avignon

The Twenty-Seven Kilometre Dry-Stone Wall the French Built Across the Provençal Hills to Contain a Single City's Plague

The Mur de la peste was a dry-stone wall approximately 27 km long, with guard posts at 100-metre intervals, built across the limestone garrigue of the Comtat Venaissin between September 1720 and August 1721. It enforced the cordon sanitaire that kept the Marseille plague from spreading north into the French interior.

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