Joseph Cambon

Portrait of Pierre Joseph Cambon
graphic by François Bonneville

Pierre Joseph Cambon (born June 16, 1756 in Montpellier , † February 15, 1820 in Saint-Josse-ten-Noode near Brussels ) was a French politician who tried during the French Revolution , by issuing assignats, the economic To stop currency decline.

From 1791 he belonged to the National Assembly , 1792 to the Convention and from 1793 to the Welfare Committee . After losing political influence, he was banished in the era of the Restoration in 1816.

literature

• R. Arnaud, Cambon, 1756-1820, la débâcle financière de la Révolution, Paris, Perrin, 1926, p. 324.
• Arnaud, Cambon, 1756–1820, the collapse of the revolution in Paris, Perrin, 1926, p. 324
• F. Bornarel, Cambon et la Révolution française, Paris, F. Bornarel, Cambon and the French Revolution, Paris, F. Alcan, 1905, p. 412.
• E.-D. Grand et L. Grand and L. de la Pijardière, Lettres de Cambon et autres envoyés de la ville de Montpellier, Montpellier, Imprimerie Serre, 1889, 100 p. Zum Pijardière, letters from Cambon and others to the city of Montpellier, Montpellier, Druckerei Gewächshaus, 1889, 100 pp.
• P.-F. Pinaud, “Les ministres des Finances: rupture ou continuité? », In R. Pinaud," The Finance Ministers: Break or Continuity? ", In RH, avril-juin 1995, pp. H., April-June 1995, pp. 283-320.
• G. Saumade, "Cambon et sa famille acquéreurs de biens nationaux", dans Annales Historiques de la Révolution française, 1938, n ° 93-94, pp. Saumade, Cambon, "and his family acquirers of national", in Historical Annals of the French Revolution, 1938, No. 93–94, pp. 3–44.
• Clovis Sené, Joseph Cambon (1756-1820), le financier de la Révolution, biography, Lattès, 1987. Clovis Sené, Joseph Cambon (1756-1820), financially supported by the revolution, biography, Lattès, 1987.

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