Dominique-Vincent Ramel-Nogaret
Dominique-Vincent Ramel de Nogaret (known as Ramel-Nogaret), born with Montolieu (Aude), the November 3rd 1769 and died in Brussels, the March 31st 1829 is a French politician, in particular Minister for Finance.
Biography
Born with in an easy family from merchants, it occupies the place of prosecutor of the king to the présidial of Carcassonne under the Ancien Mode when the Tiers state of the seneschalsy of this city sends it like deputy to the State-generals. Under convention, it occupies a reserved place, just like Sieyès, sitting at the left side of this assembly, and occupies mainly financial objects to with it. He claims in 1789 the conservation of territorial divisions, and justifies it on the organization of Languedoc, one of best which existed then. He asks then the division of the departments in two districts, and decides for the adoption of the municipal mode.Deputy of the Aude to national convention, it votes there with the majority the judgment of the king. II fact of issuing the translation in Paris of his/her colleague Brissot, stopped to Mills while it went to Switzerland, is opposed to the arrest of the English, attests falsification allotted to Fabre d' Églantine of the relative order to the Compagnie of the Indies, and presents a few days after a new drafting of this decree.
In January 1795, it is sent on mission in Holland.
Elected official member of the council of the five hundreds at the time of the constitutional organization of year III, it still deals to with it with finances. It is with him that one must the proposal, which received its execution only under the reign of Napoleon, finish the Palais of Louvre.
The 25 pluviôse year IV (January 14th, 1796), Ramel is named Minister for Finance to replace Guillaume-Charles Faipoult, station which it will occupy approximately 3 years. In the middle of difficult circumstances, he endeavors to provide for the pressing and daily needs for the armies, has the first the idea of the land register and carries out without jolt the most difficult financial transaction, that of the passage of the Assignat S with the monnayé money. Measurements which it takes to this end, the met ridges some with the ultra-revolutionaries, who show it to be the cause of misfortunes of the state. However the Directory testifies to him that it is satisfied with its administration; but this testimony does nothing but more irritate the party whose Journal of the free men is then the body. Denounced with a new fury by a great number of addresses, jointly with the ex-directors Merlin, Treilhard, Réveillère-Lepeaux, Rewbel, the minister Schérer and the Rapinat police chief, Ramel is obliged to withdraw ministry on Thermidor 7 year VII (July 20th, 1799), where it is replaced stalemate Robert Lindet. One owes him the relative economic re-establishment of France.
Ramel remains without functions under the governments consular and imperial, and reappears on the political scene only in the month of May 1815, time to which Napoleon appoints it prefect of the Calvados. The second return of the Bourbons is not long in depriving it of its functions; a few months after it is struck by the ordinance of January 12th, 1816. It is withdrawn then in Brussels, with his comrades the painter David and Sieyès, where the bar of this city admits it with the number of its members. The request for authorization to return to France required in November 1820 by his wife, at least for a few months, refused by France, it dies in exile in Brussels.
Ramel belongs to its men somewhat forgotten by the books but whose role was not the least.
Others
- It married the girl of the large bookseller and Parisian editor Panckouke. They will have a girl who will marry the prefect of Morbihan also to advise State, Lorois.
- Ramel was painted by David like his wife. Its portrait was sold 16 million francs per Maître Binoche in 1995 to unload with the the United States.
Works
- Of finances of the French Republic in year IX (1801)
- Of the exchange, the course of the government stock and the interest of the money (1807)
- several memories on finances
References
- historical Dictionary of all the ministers since the revolution until in 1827 , Léonard Welsh, Paris, 1828, (available on the site of the BNF)
- Dictionary of the French members of Parliament since May 1st, 1789 until May 1st, 1889 (volume 5), under the direction of Adolphe Robert, Edgar Bourloton and Gaston Cougny, Paris, 1889-1891, (available on the site of the BNF)
External bonds
- Biographical note of Dominique Ramel, extract of the work Ministers for Finance of the French revolution to the Second Empire , Committee for the economic and financial history of France, 2007,376 p, (ISBN 978-2-11-094805-2)