For the generality, and in the current phraseology, it remained the Mississippi; and that is the name it has left in history.
New Orleans was beginning to arise at the mouth of that river.

Law had bought Belle-Isle-en-Mer and was constructing the port of Lorient.
The Regent's councillors were scared and disquieted; the chancellor proclaimed himself loudly against the deception or illusion which made of Louisiana a land of promise; he called to mind that Crozat had been ruined in searching for mines of the precious metals there.

"The worst of him was his virtue," said Duclos.

The Regent made a last effort to convert him, as well as the Duke of Noailles, to the projects of Law.
It was at a small house in the faubourg St.Antoine, called La Roquette, belonging to the last named, that the four interlocutors discussed the new system thoroughly.

"With the use of very sensible language Law had the gift of explaining himself so clearly and intelligibly that he left nothing to desire as concerned making himself comprehended.