Jean-Roland Malet

Jean-Roland Malet (also: Mallet ; * in the 17th century ; † April 12, 1736 in Paris ) was a French financial historian and member of the Académie française .

life and work

Jean-Roland Malet was the son of a carpenter. He made a career in the financial administration of the king and rose to the closest collaborator of the finance minister Nicolas Desmarets (1648–1721, minister 1708–1715). In 1713 he wrote an ode to the king and, with the support of Desmarets, was elected to the Académie française (seat no. 40) in 1714. He kept his position under Desmaret's successors and wrote a history of French public finances since Henry IV in 1720 , which was only published in 1789 and which has recently been recognized as a unique historical document and prepared for research using modern methods.

Works (selection)

• Comptes rendus de l'Administration des Finances du Royaume de France, pendant les 11 dernières années du Règne de Henri IV, le Règne de Louis XIII, et soixante-cinq années de celui de Louis XIV , ouvrage posthume de M. Mallet. London 1789. Buisson, Paris 1789.

literature

• Margaret and Richard Bonney: Jean-Roland Malet, premier historien des finances de la monarchie française . Paris 1993.

Web links

• Information on Jean-Roland Malet in the database of the Bibliothèque nationale de France .
• Literature by and about Jean-Roland Malet in the SUDOC catalog (Association of French University Libraries)
• Short biography and list of works of the Académie française (French)
• Inaugural speech by the successor of Malet at the Académie française with a brief appreciation of the predecessor , in French
• Academic speech by Jean-Joseph Languet de Gergy to welcome the successor to Malet with a brief appreciation of the predecessor , in French