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MARQUIS GERMAIN GARNIER (1754-1821)

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Originally appearing in Volume V11, Page 472 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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MARQUIS GERMAIN See also:GARNIER (1754-1821)  , See also:French politician and economist, was See also:born at See also:Auxerre on the 8th of See also:November 1754 . He was educated for the See also:law, and obtained when See also:young the See also:office of procureur to the See also:Chatelet in See also:Paris . On the calling of the states-See also:general he was elected as one of the deputes suppleants of the See also:city of Paris, and in 1791 See also:administrator of the See also:department of Paris . After the loth of See also:August 1792 he withdrew to the Pays de See also:Vaud, and did not return to See also:France till 1795 . In public See also:life, however, he seems to have been singularly fortunate . In 1797 he was on the See also:list of candidates for the See also:Directory; in 1800 he was See also:prefect of See also:Seine-et-See also:Oise; and in 1804 he was made senator and in r8o8 a See also:count . After the Restoration he obtained a See also:peerage, and on the return of See also:Louis XVIII., after the See also:Hundred Days, he became See also:minister of See also:state and member of privy See also:council, and in 1817 was created a See also:marquis . He died at Paris on the 4th of See also:October 1821 . At See also:court he was, when young, noted for his facile See also:power of See also:writing society See also:verse, but his See also:literary reputation depends rather on his later See also:works on See also:political See also:economy, especially his admirable See also:translation, with notes and introduction, of See also:Smith's See also:Wealth of Nations (18o5) and his Histoire de la monnaie (2 vols., 1819), which contains much See also:sound and well-arranged material . His Abrege See also:des principes de l'econ. polit . (1796) is a very clear and instructive See also:manual . The valuable Description geographique, physique, et politique du departement de Seine-et-Oise (1802) was See also:drawn up from his instructions .

Other works are De la propriete (1792) and Histoire des banques d'escompte (1806) .

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