Léopold Renouard
Léopold Renouard | |
|---|---|
| Born | Jules-Léopold Renouard 27 January 1833 |
| Died | 7 March 1910 |
| Occupation(s) | Stockbroker Financier/Banker Bank director & governor |
| Spouse | Marguerite Delamotte/Renouard (1836-1922) |
| Children | Elisabeth Renouard (m. G.de Dampierre) Adèle Renouard (m. F.Ramey de Sugny) |
| Parent(s) | Jules Renouard (1798-1854) Adèle Cunin-Gridaine (1810–1834) |
Jules-Léopold Renouard (27 January 1833 – 7 March 1910) was a stock broker, financier and banker from Paris.[1]
Life
Léopold Renouard was born in Paris. His father, Jules Renouard (1798–1854) was a Bibliographer and book dealer. Through his mother, Adèle Cunin-Gridaine (1810–1834) he was descended from Laurent Cunin-Gridaine, a politician and at the time a future Minister of Agriculture.[2]
Between 1859 and 1872 Renouard worked as a stockbroker in Paris. In 1873 he was appointed a Finance Director for the city administration, soon after which he relocated to the south of the country, accepting an appointment as Treasurer and Paymaster General for the city of Tarbes,[3] and from 1875 till 1877 taking a similar position for Pau.[4] Returning to live in Paris in 1877 he was appointed the governor of the Crédit Foncier de France (national mortgage bank), a post which he held for a year.[4]
He was recruited to the regency council of the Bank of France (set 5) in 1887, and in August 1889 became second deputy governor, and serving from 1895-1898 as first deputy governor.[4] By this time he was also a member of the Société de l'histoire de France (French Historical Society) which he had joined in 1894.[4]
In the commercial sector, in 1909 he became president of the Banque de Paris et des Pays-Bas S.A. (as Paribas was then known) following the death of the bank's remarkable founder-president, Eugène Goüin, who was a distant kinsman.[4] Renoard was also the first president of the Moroccan State Bank, set up in 1907 in the wake of the Algeciras Conference.[4] His other directorships, embraced the banking and industrial sectors, and included the Banco Español de Crédito, the Banque de l'Indochine, the Paris-Orléans Railway Company and the automobile manufacturer, Lorraine-Dietrich.
Jules-Léopold Renouard died aged 77. The death was registered at the prefecture by his brother-in-law, Georges Delamotte.[5]
Personal
On 31 March 1858 Renouard married Marguerite Delamotte. She came from a well placed family, and as a result of the marriage he acquired brothers in law including the admiral Joseph Ramey de Sugny and Count Gérard of Dampierre, a departmental councillor in Landes.[6] The marriage resulted in two recorded daughters, named Elisabeth and Adèle.[2]
Awards and honours
Jules-Léopold Renouard was an officer of the Legion of Honour.[1] Other awards included the Order of Isabella the Catholic, the Order of Saint Stanislaus and the Order of the Medjidie. He was also a grand officer of the Order of the Cross of Takovo and of the Order of Saint Alexander, and a commander of the Order of the Immaculate Conception of Vila Viçosa.
References
- ^ a b "Dossier de Légion d'honneur: LH/2301/22 (19 pages)". Ministère de la Culture et de la Communication, Paris. Retrieved 18 December 2015.
- ^ a b Alain Garric. "Jules Léopold Renouard". Essai de Généalogie. Geneanet. Retrieved 18 December 2015.
- ^ "Tarbes ... Le Trésorier-Payeur général des Hautes Pyrénées". Dossier de Légion d'honneur: LH/2301/22. Ministère de la Culture et de la Communication, Paris. pp. 9–14. Retrieved 18 December 2015.
- ^ a b c d e f "L'Histoire de France". full text of "Annuaire-bulletin de la Société de l'histoire de France". Internet Archive. 1910. p. 89. Retrieved 18 December 2015.
- ^ "Registration of his death extracted and copied for his Légion d'honneur file". Dossier de Légion d'honneur: LH/2301/22. Ministère de la Culture et de la Communication, Paris. pp. 15–16. Retrieved 18 December 2015.
- ^ Claude-Odette Portefin, Généalogie de la famille Delamotte (Champagne): suivie de notices historiques sur Pressigny, Broncourt et Fayl-Billot (Fayl-la-Forêt, Haute-Marne), 1989