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Memoirs
of Extraordinary Popular Delusions
by
Charles MacKay
Trading Stories of some of the crazy things that have happened
in the world of trading, and how it effected the currencies
and markets.
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When Law, by the utter failure of his best-laid plans, rendered
himself obnoxious, satire of course seized hold upon him,
and, while
caricatures of his person appeared in all the shops, the
streets
resounded with songs, in which neither he nor the Regent
was spared.
Many of these songs were far from decent; and one of them
in
particular counselled the application of all his notes to
the most
ignoble use to which paper can be applied. But the following,
preserved in the letters of the Duchess of Orleans, was
the best and
the most popular, and was to be heard for months in all
the carrefours
of Paris. The application of the chorus is happy enough
:--
Aussitot que Lass arriva
Dans notre bonne ville,
Monsieur le Regent publia
Que Lass serait utile
Pour retablir la nation.
La faridondaine! la faridondon.
Mais il nous a tous enrich!,
Biribi!
A la facon de Barbari,
Mort ami!
Ce parpaillot, pour attirer
Tout l'argent de la France,
Songea d'abord a s'assurer
De notre confiance.
Il fit son abjuration.
La faridondaine! la faridondon!
Mais le fourbe s'est converti,
Biribi!
A la facon de Barbari,
Mon ami!
Lass, le fils aine de Satan
Nous met tous a l'aumone,
Il nous a pris tout notre argent
Et n'en rend a personne.
Mais le Regent, humain et bon,
La faridondaine! la faridondon!
Nous rendra ce qu'on nous a pris,
Biribi!
A la facon de Barbari,
Mon ami!
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