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The Grandissimes

CHAPTER V
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A MAIDEN WHO WILL NOT MARRY Midway between the times of Lufki-Humma and those of her proud descendant, Agricola Fusilier, fifty-two years lying on either side, were the days of Pierre Rigaut, the magnificent, the "Grand Marquis," the Governor, De Vaudreuil.

He was the Solomon of Louisiana.

For splendor, however, not for wisdom.

Those were the gala days of license, extravagance and pomp.

He made paper money to be as the leaves of the forest for multitude; it was nothing accounted of in the days of the Grand Marquis.


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