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36 refuse to register the decree. They refused accordingly, and the regent, remarking that they did nothing but fan the flame of sedition, exiled them to Blois. At the intercession of D'Aguesseau, the place of banishment was changed to Pontoise, and thither accordingly the councillors repaired, determined to set the regent at defiance. They made every arrangement for rendering their temporary exile as agreeable as possible. The president gave the most elegant suppers, to which he invited all the gayest and wittiest company of Paris. Every night there was a concert and ball for the ladies. The usually grave and solemn judges and councillors joined in cards and other diversions, leading for several weeks a life of the most extravagant pleasure, for no other purpose than to shew the regent of how little consequence they deemed their banishment, and that, when they willed it, they could make Pontoise a pleasanter residence than Paris.

Of all the nations in the world the French are the most renowned for singing over their grievances. Of that country it has been remarked with some truth, that its whole history may be traced in its songs. When Law, by the utter failure of his best-laid plans, rendered himself obnoxious, satire of course seized hold upon him; and while caricatures of his person appeared in all the shops, the streets resounded with songs, in which neither he nor the regent was spared. Many of these songs were far from decent; and one of them in particular counselled the application of all his notes to the most ignoble use to which paper can be applied. But the following, preserved in the letters of the Duchess of Orleans, was the best and the most popular, and was to be heard for months in all the carrefours in Paris The application of the chorus is happy enough:
 * Aussitôt que Lass arriva
 * Dans notre bonno ville,
 * Monsieur le Régent publia
 * Que Lass serait utile
 * Pour rétablir la nation.

''La faridonidaine! la faridondon!''
 * Mais il nous a tous enrichi, Biribi!

A la façon de Barbari, Mon ami!


 * Ce parpaillot, pour attirer
 * Tout I'argent de la France,
 * Songea d'abord à s'assurer
 * De notre confiance.
 * Il fit son abjuration,

''La faridonidaine! la faridondon!''