- skip - Brewer’s

Law’s Bubble

.

The famous Mississippi scheme, devised by John Law, for paying off the national debt of France (1716–1720). By this “French South-Sea Bubble” the nation was almost ruined. It was called Mississippi because the company was granted the “exclusive trade of Louisiaʹna on the banks of the Mississippi.”

 

previous entry · index · next entry

A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z

Entry taken from Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, edited by the Rev. E. Cobham Brewer, LL.D. and revised in 1895.

previous entry · index · next entry

Laurel
Laurence (Friar)
Lavaine
Lavalette (Marquis de)
Lavender
Lavinia
Lavinia and Palemon
Lavolt or Lavolta
Law
Law Latin
Law’s Bubble
Laws of the Medes and Persians
Lawing. (Scots.)
Lawsuits
Lawn
Lawn-market (The)
Lawrence (St.)
Lawyer’s Bags
Lay Brothers
Lay Figures
Lay Out (To)