The wildest story from the Mississippi Bubble, the subject of this article:

"The Paris financial district at times became so agitated that soldiers had to be sent in to restore order. Another news article told of a hunchback who grew rich by charging traders for the use of his back as a desk for signing paperwork! All of Paris had gone mad, while rising prices and the excessive issue of bank notes cast a rosy light of false prosperity over the entire scene. It was at this point that the word “millionaire” first came into common usage."

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