As a young man in Paris borrowed money from Richard Cantillon to speculate in Mississippi Company shares and made a vast paper fortune, whereupon he offered Augustus II the Strong the King of Poland 3,000,000 pounds for his crown.
As a young man in Paris borrowed money from Richard Cantillon to speculate in shares in Mississippi Company and The South Sea Company. He made a vast paper fortune, whereupon he offered Augustus II the Strong the King of Poland 3,000,000 pounds for his crown.