Joseph Périer
Joseph Périer | |
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Deputy for Marne | |
In office 15 November 1832 – 24 February 1848 | |
Personal details | |
Born | André Jean Joseph Périer 28 November 1786 Grenoble, Isère, Kingdom of France |
Died | 18 December 1868 Paris, France | (aged 82)
Occupation | Businessman, politician |
Joseph Périer (28 November 1786 – 18 December 1868) was a French businessman involved in banking and mining. His brother, Casimir Pierre Périer, served as Prime Minister of France. Joseph Périer was extremely wealthy, perhaps the richest man in France, mainly from his coal mining interests. He served in the Chamber of Deputies for 16 years during the July Monarchy.
Family
André Jean Joseph Périer was born on 28 November 1786 in Grenoble, Isère.[1] His parents were Claude Périer (1742–1802) and Marie-Charlotte Pascal (1749–1821). Claude Périer was a fabric manufacturer from Grenoble who became a wealthy banker and one of the fifteen founding regents of the Bank of France.[2] [3] Joseph Périer was the ninth son of Claude Périer, and his twelfth child.[4] One of his brothers was Casimir Pierre Périer, a banker in Paris who became prime minister of France.[5]
In 1795
In 1809 Joseph Périer married Aglaé de Clavel de Kergoman (1790–1848) in Paris. Their children were Edmond (1811–76), Mathilde (1815–77), Laure (1816–27), Camille (1819–98), Octavie (1824–1904), Gabrielle (1828–77) and Arthur (1832–99).[2]
First French Empire
In 1811 Joseph Périer was named auditor to the
Business career
After the
When Scipion Périer died in 1821,
Joseph Périer was concerned that productivity might suffer if the mines supervisory staff became too close to the workers. In 1826 he asked the general agent of the Anzin company "to arrange a kind of police that would inform him if the director, the under-director and the master foremen were doing their job."[10] The census of 1842 shows that Périer may have been the most wealthy property-owner in France, paying 56,503 francs, mostly for the
Joseph succeeded
Political career
During the
During the July Monarchy Joseph Périer was elected on 15 November 1832 as deputy for Épernay, the 4th district of the Marne department, as a member of the conservative majority. He replaced Joseph Dominique, baron Louis, who had chosen to run for another district. He was reelected on 21 June 1834. He supported François Guizot in his opposition to the ministry of Louis-Mathieu Molé.[5] Joseph Périer was reelected on 4 November 1837 and 2 March 1839, still with the government majority. He was reelected on 9 July 1842, sitting with the constitutional opposition, and reelected on 1 August 1846. He left office on 24 February 1848 when the chamber of deputies was dissolved with the French Revolution of 1848.[1]
After leaving office Joseph Périer was appointed vice-president of the central committee of primary education. He was in turn supervisor of the Caisse d'Amortissement and of the Depots et Consignations.[4] Joseph Périer was named censor of the Société Générale in 1864, and was asked to join the board in January 1868.[7] He died on 18 December 1868 in Paris.[1]
Notes
- ^ a b c André, Jean, Joseph Perier – Assemblée nationale.
- ^ a b Choulet 1894.
- ^ a b c Barker 1961, p. 167.
- ^ a b c d e f g Choulet 1894, p. 165.
- ^ a b c Robert & Cougny 1889.
- ^ Choulet 1894, p. 1659.
- ^ a b Bonin 2006, p. 65.
- ^ Tudesq 1961, p. 340.
- ^ Fohlen 1955, p. 802.
- ^ Reid 1985, pp. 593–594.
- ^ a b Tudesq 1961, p. 342.
- ^ Dormoy 1867, p. 230.
- ^ Barker 1961, p. 168.
- ^ Gille 1968, p. 76.
- ^ The Foreign Quarterly Review 1847, p. 596.
- ^ Turnbull 1830, p. 224.
Sources
- André, Jean, Joseph Perier (in French), Assemblée nationale, retrieved 29 August 2017
- Barker, Richard J. (June 1961), "French Entrepreneurship During the Restoration: The Record of a Single Firm, the Anzin Mining Company", The Journal of Economic History, 21 (2), Cambridge University Press on behalf of the Economic History Association: 161–178, JSTOR 2115186
- Bonin, Hubert (2006), Histoire de la Société générale (in French), Librairie Droz, ISBN 978-2-600-01038-2, retrieved 30 August 2017
- Choulet, Eugène (1894), "André-Jean-Joseph Perier", La famille Casimir-Perier: étude généalogique, biographique et historique, d'après des documents des archives de Grenoble, de Vizille et de l'Isère (in French), Joseph Baratier, retrieved 30 August 2017
- Dormoy, Émile (1867), Topographie souterraine du bassin houiller de Valenciennes (in French), Imprimerie impériale, retrieved 30 August 2017
- Fohlen, Claude (September 1955), "Du nouveau sur la revolution industrielle en France", Revue économique (in French), 6 (5), Sciences Po University Press: 800–808, JSTOR 3497553
- Gille, Bertrand (1968), La Sidérurgie française au XIXe siècle: Recherches histioriques (in French), Librairie Droz, ISBN 978-2-600-04046-4, retrieved 4 July 2017
- Reid, Donald (October 1985), "Industrial Paternalism: Discourse and Practice in Nineteenth-Century French Mining and Metallurgy", Comparative Studies in Society and History, 27 (4), Cambridge University Press: 579–607, JSTOR 178593
- Robert, Adolphe; Cougny, Gaston (1889), "Périer (André-Jean-Joseph)", Dictionnaire des parlementaires français de 1789 à 1889 (in French), retrieved 30 August 2017
- The Foreign Quarterly Review, Treuttel, 1847, retrieved 5 July 2017
- Tudesq, A.-J. (1961), "La Banque de France au milieu du XIX e siècle. Étude des structures sociales", Revue Historique (in French), 226 (2), Presses Universitaires de France, JSTOR 40949498
- Turnbull, D. (1830), The French Revolution of 1830: The Events which Produced It, and the Scenes by which it was Accompanied, H. Colburn and R. Bentley, retrieved 30 August 2017