Jean Paris of Monmartel born the August 3rd 1690 with Moirans (Isere), Marquis of Brunoy, Count de Chateaumeillant, of Nickle silver and Veuil d' Argenson, Viscount of the Feuilly Mound, Baron de Saint Jeanvrain, Saligny and Marigny, Lord of Villers on Sea, Chateauneuf, Chétardie, Game preserve and other places.

Benjamin of the 4 Brothers Paris, financial under Louis XV.

Monmartel comes to him from a locality located at Moirans (Isere) and spelled “Montmartel”, grounds acquired by his/her father Jean.

Wire of a family of the lower middle class from the Dauphine (his/her father is merchant of grains and supplies the armies, its mother holds the family inn), it spends the first decades of its existence to Moirans in Isere. It takes part in the commercial businesses of his father before joining his older brothers Antoine and Claude with Paris. It thus will profit from the invaluable network creates by the latter to climb in its turn the steps of the capacity.

Police chief of the Wars in 1709, it buys the load of Treasurer of the Bridges and Chaussées in 1715. Associated with the operation known as of the Visa in 1716, it made there its first weapons as regards finance. Exiled in 1720 with his brothers, it regains the capital only at the end of December this same year. Profiting from the experiment of its elder in the provisioning with the armies and wholesale, the money runs with flood and in 1722 the seigniory of Brunoy enables him to acquire.

The richest character of the kingdom after Louis XV, it makes of his park of Brunoy a chief of landscape work of art of the XVIIIè century. Not organ of the setting in scene: large water that Jean Paris de Monmartel wishes as imposing as those of Versailles. The result is worthy of praises and Brunoy will become the favorite place of visit of the Marquise of Pompadour, Voltaire or the minister Choiseul.

The bankruptcy of Law causes the return of the 4 brothers in the entourage of the capacity. Philippe of Orleans entrusts to them the implementation of the second Visa, operation aiming at restoring finances of France after the calamitous experiment of Law. Their position is still reinforced at the end of 1723 with the death of the Philippe Regent of Orleans. Jean Paris de Monmartel acquires in 1724 the office of Guard of the Royal Treasury. This influence on finances of the Kingdom, an enrichment considered to be too fast by some, crystallize the rancour of part of the nobility on the 4 brothers. They are évincés capacity at the time of a " revolution of palais" June 11th, 1726. Again exiled, Jean Paris de Monmartel spends some time to Saumur, before gaining Sampigny then Brunoy.

The disastrous state of finances of the constrained Kingdom the Cardinal Fleury then Prime Minister to recall Jean Paris to Versailles in 1730. Jean and his brother Joseph Paris Duverney benefit then from favorable circumstances to find the anterooms of the capacity: the death of Fleury and the arrival of Madam de Pompadour.

Jeanne Antoinette Poisson, Marquise of Pompadour is the goddaughter of Jean Paris de Monmartel. His/her father worked as clerk for the 4 Paris brothers. This privileged relation will make it possible Jean Paris to gradually exert the seizure on the key fields of the policy of the Kingdom. The Ministries for Finances, the War and the Foreign affairs are controlled indirectly by Jean Paris de Monmartel and his junior Paris Duverney. The Duke of Simon Saint is not mistaken there and not written in his memories: " they (Paris) are become again the Masters of finances and which one sees the Court with their feet ".

Banker of the Court in 1740 then To advise State in 1755, his influence is considerable. The Abbot of Bernis, Foreign Minister, will write in 1758: " We are dependant on Monmartel (...) Passez from this man, the bankruptcy will follow " from there;. The marshal of Saxony writes in 1746 in connection with Montmartel and of its Duverney brother: “ They are two characters who do not want to appear, and who, in the content, are extremely considerable in this country, because they make drive all the machine. They are my close friends of all times, and they are the decent people and the best citizens ”.

Jean Paris de Monmartel will remain Banquier of the Court until 1759, date on which it will pass the relay to the Farmer general Jean-Joseph de Laborde. He dies out in his castle of Brunoy on September 10th, 1766.

Sources

• Moirans Association from time immemorial, exposure on the Paris Brothers realized in 2003,
• Publications of the S.A.H.A.V.Y. (Company of Art, History and Archeology of the Valley of Yerres),
• Robert DUBOIS-CORNEAU " Jean Paris de Monmartel, Banker of Cour" , Bookstore Fountain, Paris, 1917.
• BEAUMARCHAIS (Pierre-Augustin CHARON of), " The Tartar in Légion" , Edition established, presented and annotated by Marc Cheynet de Beaupré, Bordeaux, the Astral Beaver, Collection " Inattendus" , 1998 (long introduction on Paris, in particular on the reports/ratios of Beaumarchais with Paris-Duverney, and very complete genealogy of the descent of the four Paris brothers).
• Irene of CHÂTEAU-THIERRY " Hotel Monmartel, the Parisian residence of large a financier" , memory of research of the School of Louvre, 1993-1998