Thiers’ French text was at the same time revised and published separately in Paris in 1858. Among other French monographs P. E. Levasseur’s _Recherches historiques sur le système de Law_ (Paris, 1854, and again, 1857) is perhaps the most complete treatment which the subject has yet received. We may further add Jules Michelet’s “Paris et la France sous Law” in the _Revue de deux mondes_, 1863, vol. xliv.; and the general histories of France, notably Martin’s and Guizot’s, of which there are English versions; the special works on the reign of Louis XV., like De Tocqueville’s; P. E. Lémontey’s _Histoire de la Régence_ (Paris, 1832); J. F. Marmontel’s _Régence du duc de Orléans_ (1805), vol. i. p. 168; and the conglomerate monograph of La Croix, _Dix-huitième siècle_ (Paris, 1875), chap. viii. Law finds his most vigorous defender in Louis Blanc, in a chapter of the introduction to his _Révolution Française_. The Germans have not made their treatment of the subject very prominent, but reference may be made to J. Heymann’s _Law und sein System_ (1853). The strong dramatic contrasts of Law’s career have served the English novelist Ainsworth in a story which is known by the projector’s name; but the reader will better get all the contrasts and extraordinary vicissitudes of the social concomitants of the time in the _Mémoires_ of St. Simon, Richelieu, Pollnitz, Barbier, Dangeau, Duclos, and others. The familiarity of Mr. Davis with the subject has been of great assistance to the Editor in making this survey. =II.= THE STORY OF MONCACHT-APÉ.—The writer of this chapter has, in the _Proceedings of the American Antiquarian Society_, April 25, 1883, printed a paper on the story of Moncacht-Apé,—an Indian of the Yazoo tribe, who claimed to have made a journey from the Mississippi to the Pacific about the year 1700, which paper has also been printed separately as _The Journey of Moncacht-Apé_. The story, which first appeared in Le Page du Pratz’ contributions to the _Journal œconomique_, and first took permanent form in Dumont’s _Mémoires_ in 1753, was made in part to depend for its ethnological interest on the Yazoo marrying a captive Indian, who tells him a story of bearded white men being seen on the Pacific coast. That the Yazoo himself encountered on the Pacific coast a bearded people who came there annually in ships for dye-wood, is derived from the fuller narrative which Le Page du Pratz himself gives in his _Histoire de la Louisiane_ published five years later, in 1758.