Jacques Laffitte

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  1. There is no biography of Laffitte in English. The excellent, most recent biography in French is by Virginie Monnier, Jacques Laffitte. Roi des banquiers et banquier des rois (Bruxelles, 2013). In 2007 a colloquium on Jacques Laffitte was held at the Château de Maisons and the papers delivered were published subsequently in the Bulletin de la Société des amis du château de Maisons, No.3 (2008).
  2. Monnier, Jacques Laffitte, p.72.
  3. Ibid., p. 160.
  4. See Bertrand Gille, La banque en France au XIXe siècle (1970). Rondo Cameron, Banking in the Early Stages of Industrialization (1967), Chap. IV, provides a valuable survey of the French banking structure, 1800–1870. The bank's name was changed to "Jacques Laffitte and Company" in December 1817, at which time Laffitte's brother, Pierre Laffitte (1765–1846), Alphonse Perregaux and Jean Charles Clarmont were associates. The bank's capital was increased from 2 million to 6 million francs. See Monnier, Jacques Laffitte, p. 129.
  5. Monnier, Jacques Laffitte, p. 136.
  6. See Reed Geiger, Planning the French Canals (1994).Table 3, p. 167, shows "1822 Canal Loan Contracts."
  7. Alexandre De Laborde, De L'esprit d'association dans tous les intérêts de la communauté (Paris, 1818).
  8. Gille, La banque en France, pp.114–16; Monnier, Jacques Laffitte, pp. 173–76.
  9. Monnier, Jacques Laffitte, pp.188–90. Laffitte was married in 1801 to Marine-Françoise Laeut (1783–1849), the young daughter of a merchant at Havre. Albine-Étiennette Laffitte (d.1881), who became the princess Ney of Moskowa, was the only child.
  10. See David Pinkney, The French Revolution of 1830 (1972). For Casimir Perier's position, see Madeleine Bourset, Casimir Perier. Un Prince Financier au Temps du Romanticism, p. 199.
  11. Monnier, Jacques Laffitte, pp.232, 241, 256–58.
  12. See Jacques Laffitte, Caisse générale du commerce et de l'industrie: statuts et constitution définitive. Assemblée générale des actionnaires, 2 octobre 1837 (Google books).
  13. Hubert Bonin, "Jacques Laffitte banquier d'affaires sans créer de modèle de banque d'affaires," Bulletin de la Société des amis du château de Maisons, No.3 (2008).
  14. Jacques Laffitte, Mémoirs, 1767–1844 (1932), quoted in Monnier, p. 269.
  15. Monnier, Jacques Laffitte, p.266. Charles Laffitte became a banker in Paris during the July Monarchy. He was a promoter of the Paris-Rouen railroad, 1841–47.
  16. A. Gouin, Autobiographie (MS., family archives), p.45, quoted in Monnier, Jacques Laffitte, p.268. After January 1845 the company name was "A. Goüin et Cie," or "Caisse Goüin."

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Jacques Laffitte
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Member of the Chamber of Deputies
for Seine-Inférieure
In office
2 March 1839 26 May 1844