Etienne Clavière

Etienne Clavière , Banking and Swiss Political personality , born with Geneva, the January 27th 1735, it commits suicide with Paris, the December 8th 1793.

Biography

His/her father was a large trader established in Geneva. Before the Révolution Etienne Clavière is a Genevese financier dealing of financial speculations but also with the propaganda of the novel ideas. He creates for itself useful bonds in the medium of finances of all countries but also in the medium of the philosophical letters, he côtoie and political writers. I

L was member of the democratic party of the small Genevese republic of which it became one of the chiefs. This party obtained a great success, which caused in 1782 the intervention of the troops of the State of Bern supported by the France and the Sardinia which brought back the old order. Etienne Clavière and a score of its compatriots was exiled. They settled in Ireland with the intention founding a manufacture of clock industry. As for Etienne Clavière, it had a rather happy exile. It continued to make bear fruit its money while increasing the field of its financial transactions. It went in many countries.

With Paris, it made the meeting of Honore Gabriel Riqueti, count de Mirabeau of which he became the principal collaborator for the financial question. It binds with Jacques Pierre Brissot, takes part with him in the literary and philosophical companies of the future chief of the Girondins. In 1788, the Genevese financier founded a company for the land acquisition to the the United States, it suggested in Jacques Pierre Brissot going in the New World in order to carry out the transactions necessary. Jacques Pierre Brissot which liked to speculate time for other before the Revolution earned money thanks to the assistance brought by the Genevese banker. Etienne Clavière is established in France and was chief administrator of the Insurance company on the life. He acquired of a beautiful property located at Suresnes around Paris, in June 1788, he settled there and lived there extremely easily. He brought his collaboration to the newspaper of Honore Gabriel Riqueti, count de Mirabeau, the Mail of Provence , was member of the Société of the friends of the Blacks and was hostile towards Jacques Necker.

In 1789, Etienne Clavière becomes member of the Club of the Jacobins. It made appear a work where it explains how to cure the financial crisis which mines France (in an article of its newspaper Mail of Provence , Honore Gabriel Riqueti, count de Mirabeau spoke in praise of it), it presented requests to the constituent Assembly, wrote letters intended to the ministers and for the deputies. It the USA of all the means which allowed him its financial position which was more comfortable to be shown with its advantage.

In 1791, it is elected appointed substitute for the legislative Assemblée by the department of the the Seine. It is thus not surprising to see being reproduced the name of Etienne Clavière on the list of the ministers of Gironde that Jacques Pierre Brissot imposed on Charles François Dumouriez when this last had to designate the men who would compose his ministry.

In March 1792, Etienne Clavière is seen giving the wallet of the Contributions. Its attacks towards the Court were particularly violent. It offers its resignation, the June 20th 1792, it is replaced by Jules-Emile-François-Herve de Beaulieu. After the Day of August 10th, 1792, it takes again its place within the Executive council as Minister for Finance. It shared the tragic fate of the Girondins, but did not appear among the twenty-two accused of the lawsuit of October 1793. Issued arrest the June 2nd 1793, it accepted its bill of indictment only the December 8th 1793. One is unaware of why Etienne Clavière was saved the October 31st 1793, perhaps profited it from a mysterious protection. It was done little illusion on the exit of its lawsuit. His deadened comrades of cell, provided with a table knife which it had dissimulated at the time of the meal sound recording, it went a mortal blow in the middle. Learning the suicide from her husband, Mrs. Clavière poisoned herself.

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