Millionaire: The Philanderer, Gambler, and Duelist Who Invented Modern Finance (27 page)

Parabère, Madame de

Paris:
crime wave in
frenetic atmosphere of rue
Quincampoix in
Law’s first visit to
Law’s home in
Law’s years in

Pâris brothers

Parlement (France)

Parliament (Scotland)

Pascal, Blaise

Paterson, William

Pellegrini, Antonio

Pepys, Samuel

Peterborough, Lord

Petty, Sir William

Pitt, Thomas

plague

Pollnitz, Carl Ludwig von, Baron

Pope, Alexander

Portugal

Prévost, Abbé

Prie, Madame de

Prie, Marquis de

primes

probability theory

Pulteney, Daniel

Ramsay, Sir Andrew

Regent Diamond

revaluations

Richelieu, Cardinal de

Rigaud, Hyacinthe

Roxburghe, Earl of

Royal Mint

Russia

Saint-Simon, Louis de Rouvray
Parlement rebellion and
Regent Diamond and

Sandwich, Lord

Savoy, Victor Amadeus, Duke of

Schenk, Leon

Scotland
Law family’s years in
Law’s economic proposals forLaw’s return to

Seigneur, Katherine, née Knowles
(known as Mrs. John Law)
childbearing of
flight from France and
Law’s death and
religion issue and
as society hostess

Seymour, Conyers

Shrewsbury, Duke of

silver
coinage
edicts on sale, transport, or
possession of

Sinzendorff, Count von

Smith, Adam

South Sea Company

Spain

Squadrone Volante

Stair, John Dalrymple, Earl of

Stanhope, James

State of Europe

Steuart, Sir James

Stockholm Banco

Stratford, William

Suffolk, Countess of

Sutton (English diplomat)

Sweden, paper money in

Tarente, Prince de

Temple, Sir William

Tencin, Abbé de

Tencin, Claudine de

Thompson, Sir William

tobacco

Torcy, Madame de

Torcy, Marquis de

trade
French financial collapse and,
money supply and

Tresmes, Duc de

Tulipmania

Unknown Lady’s Pacquet of Letters
,
The,

usury

Vendôme, Duc de

Venice, Law’s sojourns in

Verelst, John

Vermalet (stock dealer)

Vernezobre (bank clerk)

Villiers, Elizabeth

Visa

Voltaire

Wallingford, Lord

Walpole, Horace

Walpole, Sir Robert

wampum

Ward, Ned

Warriston, James Johnston, Earl of

War of Spanish Succession

Watteau, Antoine

Wightman, Captain

William III, King of England

Wilson, Edward

Wilson, Miss

Wilson, Robert

A
BOUT THE
A
UTHOR

Janet Gleeson, author of the number-one
Times
(London) bestseller
The Arcanum,
was born in Sri Lanka and has a degree in art history and English. She has worked at Sotheby’s Impressionist Paintings Department and at Bonham’s Auctioneers, running the Old Masters Painting Department. She was an art and antiques correspondent for
House & Garden
for seven years, has been an editor at Reed Books, and has written for
The Antiques Collector
and many other magazines. She lives in London.