Joseph François Augustin Monneron
See also: Monneron
Joseph François Augustin Monneron , banking French, Deputy of Paris to the legislative Parliament, negotiating with the New-Orleans, born the December 24th 1756 with Annonay, deceased the August 13rd 1826 with Barataria, New-Orleans, the United States.
Context
His/her brothers Louis Monneron (1742 - 1805) and Pierre Antoine Monneron (1747 - 1801) were appointed with the General states for the the Indies Orientales and the Ile de France.
Biography
It made its career in Finances and is established initially banking in Paris. His/her Louis brother was used to him as guarantee. They obtained in 1791 the right to strike currency coppers some which bore their name (coins of 2 and 5 grounds). He is appointed of Paris to the Legislative Parliament the September 28th 1791, he asked as of the October 21st, the organization of the elementary schools and the punishment of the priests who refused to subject themselves to the laws. In January 1792, it tried to defend the freedom of the trade with the colonies, then it gave its resignation the March 31st 1792.
In June 1796, two Monneron traders and Godard create a bank of discount called Caisse of the Accounts - currents (the term of bank is banished of France since the experiment of the General Bank of John Law). The company settles with the hotel Massiac, Place of the Victories in the old offices of the Compagnie of the Indies, from where its nickname of Caisse Massiac .
See also: Bank Monneron
Quickly some financial unites with the two founders. Named in 1798 Directing of the Case of the Accounts - currents, he saw marked embezzlements, then discharged (grace seems it with the intervention of Paul Barras).
The First Consul had thought of making a Minister for Finance of it. Its disgrace was due to Fouché, its antagonist, which obtained First Consul to withdraw the right to strike currency at the Monneron Bank. The withdrawal of its privilege was equivalent for him to the ruin, in spite of its payment. Perhaps, he believed, like Napoleon i, with the possibility of a return of French influence in Louisiana, it left France for the United States and finished its days in New-Orleans.
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