Whilst the greatest effort has been made to ensure the quality of this text, due to the historical nature of this content, in some rare cases there may be minor issues with legibility. As early as the seventeenth century America began to be represented in Paris other than by a few miserable Indians brought hence by French explorers of the new world. From that time (1653) dates the founding of many trading com panics which even then sought to establish regular business relations, and among which the most far-famed was prob ably the Mississippi Company, headed by Law.
