These financiers

"These financiers used the government as bankrupt prodigals are treated by
usurious moneylenders, who feeding their extravagance with the one hand, with
the other wring out of their ruined fortunes the most unreasonable recompenses
for their advances.

By a long succession of these ruinous loans, and the various rights granted to
guarantee them, the whole finances of France were brought to total confusion."