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Bank of France
Banque de France
Logo
Headquarters
Paris, France
Established
18 January 1800
Governor
François Villeroy de Galhau
Central bank of
France
Preceded by
Banque Royale
Succeeded by
European Central Bank (1999)1
Website
www.banque-france.fr
1 The Bank of France still exists but many functions have been taken over by the ECB.
The Bank of France known in French as the Banque de France, headquartered in Paris, is the central bank of France; it is linked to the European Central Bank (ECB). In 1716 the Banque Générale was created by British economist John Law[1] following a crash and emerged as a powerful central bank. Its main charge is to implement the interest rate policy of the European System of Central Banks (ESCB).
Contents
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1 History
2 Linkage with the ESCB
3 Timeline
4 Controversy
5 See also
6 References
7 Further reading
8 External links
History[edit]
In 1800, financial power in France was in the hands of about ten to fifteen banking houses whose founders, in most cases, came from Switzerland in the second half of the eighteenth century. These bankers, mostly Protestant, were deeply involved in the agitations leading up to the French Revolution. When the revolutionary violence got out of hand, they orchestrated the rise of Napoleon, whom they regarded as the restorer of order. As a reward for their support, Napoleon, in 1800, gave the bankers a monopoly over French finance by giving them control of the new Bank of France.[2] Banker Claude Périer drafted the first statutes and Emmanuel Crétet was the first governor. For the first fifteen years it was the sole issuer of bank notes in Paris, and this privilege was extended to other financially important cities and the rest of the country by 1848.[3]
Linkage with the ESCB[edit]
ATM of the Bank of France in Paris.
On 1 June 1998, a new institution was created, the European Central Bank (ECB), charged with steering the single monetary policy for the euro. The body formed by the ECB, and the national central banks (NCB) of all the member states of the European Union, constitute the European System of Central Banks (ESCB).
The ESCB is an institutional framework of a single monetary policy for the euro. According to the Bank of France's website, the "sharing of responsibilities between the ECB and the NCBs is based upon significant decentralization of the conduct of the ESCB's single monetary policy".
Headquarters : Hôtel de Toulouse in Paris
Timeline[edit]
1716 John Law opens the Banque Générale
1718 The Banque Générale is acquired by the government and renamed Banque Royale
1721 The bubble crashes and its chief executive flees for his life[4]
1800 Creation of the Bank of France by Napoleon Bonaparte[2]
14 April 1803, the new Bank received its first official charter granting it the exclusive right to issue paper money in Paris for fifteen years.[5]
22 April 1806, a new law replaced the Central Committee with a Governor and two Deputy Governors. All three were appointed by the Emperor.[5]
Decree dated 16 January 1808 set out the "Basic Statutes", which were to govern the Bank's operations until 1936.[5]
Decree on 6 March 1808 authorized the Bank to purchase the former mansion of the Count of Toulouse in the rue de la Vrillière in Paris for its headquarters.[5]
1808–1936 The Bank's notes became legal tender; expansion of the branch network
1936–1945 Nationalisation
1973 Rewriting of the Bank's statutes
1993 A landmark reform granted the Bank independence, in order to ensure price stability, regardless of domestic politics. This reform cleared the path for the European monetary union.
1998 Entered into the European System of Central Banks
Controversy[edit]
In 2010, the French government's Autorité de la concurrence (the department in charge of regulating competition) fined eleven banks, including Bank of France, the sum of €384,900,000 for colluding to charge unjustified fees on check processing, especially for extra fees charged during the transition from paper check transfer to "Exchanges Check-Image" electronic transfer.[6][7]
See also[edit]
Economy of France
Euro
French franc
Governor of the Bank de France
References[edit]
Jump up ^ Standford, Rives (18 December 2010). "John Law: Paper Currency Experiment 1716-1719". standfordrives. Retrieved 21 February 2018.
^ Jump up to: a b Quigley, Carroll (1966). Tragedy And Hope. New York: Macmillan. p. 515. ISBN 0-945001-10-X.
Jump up ^ Bank of France, Encyclopædia Britannica
Jump up ^ Graeber, David (2011). Debt: The First 5000 Years. Brooklyn, NY: Melville House. p. 342. ISBN 978-1-933633-86-2.
^ Jump up to: a b c d http://www.banque-france.fr/en/banque-de-france/history/the-milestones/1800-creation-of-the-banque-de-france.html
Jump up ^ Collusion in the banking sector, Press Release of Autorité de la concurrence, République Française, 20 September 2010, retrv 20 September 2010
Jump up ^ 3rd UPDATE: French Watchdog Fines 11 Banks For Fee Cartel , Elena Bertson, Dow Jones News Wires / Wall Street Journal online, retr 20 September 2010
Further reading[edit]
Bouvier, Jean. "The Banque de France and the State from 1850 to the Present Day." in Fausto Vicarelli, et al. eds., Central banks' independence in historical perspective (Walter de Gruyter, 1988) pp 73–104.
Jacoud, Gilles. "Crises et Apprentissage: La Banque de France en 1848," Entreprises et Histoire (Dec. 2012) Issue 69, pp 27–37
Plessis, Alain. "The history of banks in France." in Pohl, Manfred, and Sabine Freitag, eds. Handbook on the history of European banks (Edward Elgar Publishing, 1994) pp: 185-296. online
External links[edit]
(in French) (in English) Official site of Bank of France
(in French) Beginnings of Banque de France The directors of Bank of France between 1800 and 1815.
Coordinates: 48°51′52″N 2°20′21″E / 48.864478°N 2.339289°E / 48.864478; 2.339289
(in French) Banque de France, Minitel Connection
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