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See also:GARNIER, GERMAIN, See also:MARQUIS (1754-1821) , See also:French politician and economist, was See also:born at See also:Auxerre on the 8th of See also:November 1754. He was educated for the See also:law, and obtained when See also:young the See also:- OFFICE (from Lat. officium, " duty," " service," a shortened form of opifacium, from facere, " to do," and either the stem of opes, " wealth," " aid," or opus, " work ")
office of procureur to the See also:Chatelet in See also:Paris. On the calling of the states-See also:general he was elected as one of the deputes suppleants of the See also:city of Paris, and in 1791 See also:administrator of the See also:department of Paris. After the loth of See also:August 1792 he withdrew to the Pays de See also:Vaud, and did not return to See also:France till 1795. In public See also:life, however, he seems to have been singularly fortunate. In 1797 he was on the See also:list of candidates for the See also:Directory; in 1800 he was See also:prefect of See also:Seine-et-See also:Oise; and in 1804 he was made senator and in r8o8 a See also:count. After the Restoration he obtained a See also:peerage, and on the return of See also:- LOUIS
- LOUIS (804–876)
- LOUIS (893–911)
- LOUIS, JOSEPH DOMINIQUE, BARON (1755-1837)
- LOUIS, or LEWIS (from the Frankish Chlodowich, Chlodwig, Latinized as Chlodowius, Lodhuwicus, Lodhuvicus, whence-in the Strassburg oath of 842-0. Fr. Lodhuwigs, then Chlovis, Loys and later Louis, whence Span. Luiz and—through the Angevin kings—Hungarian
Louis XVIII., after the See also:Hundred Days, he became See also:minister of See also:state and member of privy See also:council, and in 1817 was created a marquis. He died at Paris on the 4th of
See also:October 1821. At See also:court he was, when young, noted for his facile See also:power of See also:writing society See also:verse, but his See also:literary reputation depends rather on his later See also:works on See also:political See also:economy, especially his admirable See also:translation, with notes and introduction, of See also:- SMITH
- SMITH, ADAM (1723–1790)
- SMITH, ALEXANDER (183o-1867)
- SMITH, ANDREW JACKSON (1815-1897)
- SMITH, CHARLES EMORY (1842–1908)
- SMITH, CHARLES FERGUSON (1807–1862)
- SMITH, CHARLOTTE (1749-1806)
- SMITH, COLVIN (1795—1875)
- SMITH, EDMUND KIRBY (1824-1893)
- SMITH, G
- SMITH, GEORGE (1789-1846)
- SMITH, GEORGE (184o-1876)
- SMITH, GEORGE ADAM (1856- )
- SMITH, GERRIT (1797–1874)
- SMITH, GOLDWIN (1823-191o)
- SMITH, HENRY BOYNTON (1815-1877)
- SMITH, HENRY JOHN STEPHEN (1826-1883)
- SMITH, HENRY PRESERVED (1847– )
- SMITH, JAMES (1775–1839)
- SMITH, JOHN (1579-1631)
- SMITH, JOHN RAPHAEL (1752–1812)
- SMITH, JOSEPH, JR
- SMITH, MORGAN LEWIS (1822–1874)
- SMITH, RICHARD BAIRD (1818-1861)
- SMITH, ROBERT (1689-1768)
- SMITH, SIR HENRY GEORGE WAKELYN
- SMITH, SIR THOMAS (1513-1577)
- SMITH, SIR WILLIAM (1813-1893)
- SMITH, SIR WILLIAM SIDNEY (1764-1840)
- SMITH, SYDNEY (1771-1845)
- SMITH, THOMAS SOUTHWOOD (1788-1861)
- SMITH, WILLIAM (1769-1839)
- SMITH, WILLIAM (c. 1730-1819)
- SMITH, WILLIAM (fl. 1596)
- SMITH, WILLIAM FARRAR (1824—1903)
- SMITH, WILLIAM HENRY (1808—1872)
- SMITH, WILLIAM HENRY (1825—1891)
- SMITH, WILLIAM ROBERTSON (1846-'894)
Smith's See also:Wealth of Nations (18o5) and his Histoire de la monnaie (2 vols., 1819), which contains much See also:sound and well-arranged material. His Abrege See also:des principes de l'econ. polit. (1796) is a very clear and instructive See also:manual. The valuable Description geographique, physique, et politique du departement de Seine-et-Oise (1802) was See also:drawn up from his instructions. Other works are De la propriete (1792) and Histoire des banques d'escompte (1806).
End of Article: GARNIER, GERMAIN, MARQUIS (1754-1821)
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