Bank of France

The Bank of France is the central bank of the Republic of France, and a member of the Eurosystem for France. It was established by Napoleon Bonaparte in 1800 as a private-sector corporation with unique public status. It was granted note-issuance monopoly in Paris in 1803 and in the entire country in 1848, issuing the French franc.

Long independent from direct political interference, it was brought under government control in 1936 and eventually nationalized in 1945. While other banks of issue were created in the French colonial empire, the Bank of France remained Metropolitan France's sole monetary authority until end-1998, when France adopted the euro as its currency.

List of governors

Beginning of tenure		Name	Born-Died
1806	25 April	Emmanuel Crétet	1747–1809
1807	9 August	François Jaubert [fr]	1758–1822
1814	6 April	Jacques Laffitte	1767–1844
1820	6 April	Martin-Michel-Charles Gaudin	1756–1841
1836	25 February	Jean Charles Joachim Davillier [fr]	1758–1846
1836	5 September	Antoine Maurice Apollinaire d'Argout	1782–1858
1857	9 June	Charles Le Bègue de Germiny	1799–1871
1863	15 May	Adolphe Vuitry	1813–1885
1864	28 September	Gustave Rouland	1806–1878
1879	18 January	Ernest Denormandie	1821–1902
1881	18 November	Pierre Magnin	1824–1910
1897	24 December	Georges Pallain [fr]	1847–1923
1920	25 August	Georges Robineau [fr]	1860–1927
1926	26 June	Émile Moreau	1868–1950
1930	25 September	Clément Moret [fr]	1886–1943
1935	2 January	Jean Tannery [fr]	1878–1939
1936	6 June	Émile Labeyrie [fr]	1877–1966
1937	20 July	Pierre-Eugène Fournier [fr]	1882–1972
1940	31 August	Yves Bréart de Boisanger [fr]	1896–1976
1944	7 October	Emmanuel Monick	1893–1983
1949	19 January	Wilfrid Baumgartner [fr]	1902–1978
1960	21 January	Jacques Brunet	1901–1990
1969	8 April	Olivier Wormser [fr]	1913–1985
1974	14 June	Bernard Clappier [fr]	1913–1999
1979	23 November	Renaud de La Genière [fr]	1925–1990
1984	14 November	Michel Camdessus	1933
1987	19 January	Jacques de Larosière	1929
1993	September	Jean-Claude Trichet	1942
2003	1 November	Christian Noyer	1950
2015	1 November	François Villeroy de Galhau	1959
2016	2 June	Emmanuel Moulin	1968

References

↑ "The Organisation and Structure of Central Banks", Technische Universität Darmstadt, April 20, 2017, retrieved 2024-11-23
1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31 "Institution". Banque de France. 29 September 2016. Archived from the original on 28 May 2023. Retrieved 24 May 2020.
1 2 Achard, Pierre (29 September 2014). "Dictionnaire historique des inspecteurs des Finances 1801–2009: Dictionnaire thématique et biographique". Institut de la gestion publique et du développement économique.

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[:0-1] "The Organisation and Structure of Central Banks", Technische Universität Darmstadt, April 20, 2017, retrieved 2024-11-23

[bankinstitution-2] 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31 "Institution". Banque de France. 29 September 2016. Archived from the original on 28 May 2023. Retrieved 24 May 2020.

[auto-3] 1 2 Achard, Pierre (29 September 2014). "Dictionnaire historique des inspecteurs des Finances 1801–2009: Dictionnaire thématique et biographique". Institut de la gestion publique et du développement économique.

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