re: #153 jaunte

I see by that decision that we may have a shot at suing the descendants of the French Monarchy to recover the funds:

Yet another reason to hate blame the French!

‘‘He recommended to the king that French settlers should learn to live with the annual inundations of the river because it fed and fattened the land,’’ Condrey said. ‘‘The French knew that these annual overflows were very important to maintaining the fertility of the soil.”