Jacques Récamier

Jacques-Rose Récamier (10 March 1751, Lyon - 29 March 1830, Paris) was a French banker. He was also notable as the husband of the salon-leader Juliette Récamier.

The Récamier family originated in Bugey, a region which then specialised in the leather trade and trading with Geneva. Jacques-Rose was the son of François Récamier (1709-1782), who had been born in Belley and owned several hat shops as well as managing a bank in Lyon. Jacques-Rose's mother was Emmeraude Delaroche (1725-1777), daughter of a bookseller and printer from Lyon. The

In 1782 he took over the bank founded by his father and as Jacques Récamier & Cie it nurtured links with high-finance in Geneva, maintained branches in Cadiz and Madrid and had links with British financiers and trading houses on La Réunion. It was probably involved in trading dollars alongside the French East India Company in the 1780s.

In Lyon on 24 April 1793 Jacques-Rose Récamier married the 15-year-old Jeanne Françoise Julie Adélaïde Bernard, later known as Juliette Récamier. She was the daughter of Julie Matton and Jean Bernard (? - 1828), a notary in Lyon who had been made receiver of finances in Paris in 1784 by Calonne (remaining so until dismissed by Napoleon in 1807). Récamier escaped prison during the Reign of Terror thanks to support from politicians surrounding Cambacérès. In June 1796 he, the Genevan banker Jean-Frédéric Perrégaux and others founded the Caisse des comptes courants, of which Récamier became one of the administrators. He later exchanged his shares in it for shares in the Banque de France, becoming one of the latter's régents on 16 February 1800. At its first shareholders' meeting on 21 April 1800, he took seat 9, holding it until his resignation on 17 October 1806.

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