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Law, finding the inconvenience of his residence, removed to the Place Vendome, whither the crowd of agioteurs followed him. That spacious square soon became as thronged as the Rue de Quincampoix : from morning to night it presented the appearance of a fair.
You will wonder to be told that it is from the eastward chiefly that these champions for a king, lords, and commons come. They get some important associates from New York, and are puffed up by a tribe of Agioteurs which have been hatched in a bed of corruption, made up after the model of their beloved England.
Strategy, of Staremberg. Affair of Brighuega. Battle of Villavciosa. Its Consequences to Vendome and to Spain. State of the Country. New Taxes. The King's Conscience Troubled. Decision of the Sorbonne. Debate in the Council. Effect of the Royal Tithe. Tax on Agioteurs. Merriment at Court. Death of a Son of Marechal Boufflers. The Jesuits. My Interview with Du Mont. A Mysterious Communication.
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