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George Bancroft, History of the United States from the Discovery of the American Continent, Vol. 3, 15th edition., Chapter XXIII (search)
and peers, marshals and bishops, women of rank, statesmen and courtiers,—eager to profit by the sudden and indefinite rise of stocks, conspired to reverence Law as the greatest man of his age. It was in September, 1717, that the Western company obtained its grant. On the twenty-fifth day of the following August, after a long but happy voyage, the Victory, the Duchess of Noailles, and the Mary, bearing eight hundred emigrants for Louisiana, chanted their Te Deurn as they cast anchor near Dauphine 1715 B de la Harpe, Ms Hist. Du Pratz, i 24 and 38, with II. 260. Island. Already had Bienville, in the midsummer of 1718, as he descended the Mississippi, selected on its banks a site for tile capital of the new empire; and from the prince who denied God, and trembled at a star, the dissolute but generous regent of France, the Chap. XXIII.} promised city received the name of New Orleans. Instead of ascending the river in the ships, the emigrants disembarked on the crystalline sands o