Claude Baudard of Saint-James
Claude Baudard of Saint-James is a financier French of the 18th century, born in 1736 and died in 1787.
Wire of Georges Nicolas Baudard de Vaudésir, receiver of the sizes of the election of Angers become general treasurer of the Colonies, it succeeds to him in 1758 in the functions of general treasurer of the Navy and develops in an extraordinary way the businesses of his father. He is associated at all the industrial and financial large companies of his time: the Company of North, the Company of Creusot, the Water-company of Paris, mines of Baigorri and Decize. The whole of its investments are evaluated with a total of 7 million books, without counting its plantations of Saint-Domingue.
Baudard of Saint-James saw sumptuously. It acquires a hotel 12 Place Vendôme and creates the Saint-James madness with Neuilly-sur-Seine. In its English garden, it makes transport Fontainebleau enormous a 43 height meters rock. Louis XVI, which saw one day passing the block of stone, does not call any more but it “the man with the rock”.
It makes bankruptcy in 1787. Charles Alexandre de Calonne refuses to approve the accounts of the Company of the North, which had obtained a privilege of the King in 1785. Baudard of Holy-James spends three months to the Bastille and dies shortly after.
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