Which Frenchman's failed Mississippi Company scheme caused one of history's first major stock market bubbles in 1720?
Long before dot-com crashes or crypto meltdowns, an ambitious Scotsman-turned-Frenchman managed to bankrupt half of Paris with promises of Louisiana gold. Spoiler: there wasn't much gold.
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