Jacques Laffitte (* 24 October 1767 in Bayonne; "† 26. May 1844) was a French banker and politician.

Lafitte was one of ten children of a Carpenter. He became employee in the banking house of Perregaux in Paris. 1800 it became partner, 1804 followed it Perregeux there as a director/conductor of the house. Perregaux, Laffitte et Cie. became one of the largest banks in Europe. Laffitte became 1809 member of the supervisory board, 1814 then president of the bank of France and president of the Chamber of Commerce. It made 1814 large money supplies available for the interim government and for king Ludwig XVIII. during "„the one hundred days "“. With it Bonaparte deposited five million franc, before he left France for the last time.

Instead of granting the government money from the bank to, Laffitte made two million available from own bag, in order to cover the debts of the troops of the realm after the battle from Waterloo to. 1816 it returned to the Lower House and took there in the left spectrum a seat. He spoke mainly to financial questions; although it admits opinions for its liberals was, Ludwig took XVIII. it into a commission for public finances up.

1818 protected Laffitte Paris a financial crisis, by buying a larger number of shares. In the following year lost it the presidency of the bank, because it had defended very seriously the Pressefreiheit and the electoral law. As one of the most decided trailers of the constitutional monarchy it became under the Duke of Orleans in the July of 1830 delegates for Bayonne, when its house in Paris became the headquarters of the revolutionary party. When Charles X., after he had back drawn the hated regulations, sent the Comte d'Argout to Laffette, in order a change in the Ministry to reject, answered the banker: "„It is too late. There are no Charles X. more "“, and it was it, that nominating of Louis Philippe as a lieutenant general of the kingdom, secured. On 3 August he became a president of the Lower House, and in the position he received Lous Philippes oath on the new condition.

The call of the mobilization in Paris after the death of the caught Ministers of Charles X. found his high point in October unrests, at those also more moderate members of the government participated - including Guizot, the Duc de Broglie and Casimir Pierre - around a government delivery at Ministers to require, who had the confidence revolutionary partisans. On 5 November Laffitte became an Prime Minister of a government, that was written on the flags, for movement; at the same time it led the Treasury. The government was back and forth clever between the necessity to provide for order and the necessity to reconcile the partisanischen in no direction it came to success. The accused Ministers was saved by the courage of the upper house and by national the Guarde; but their security went at expense from Laffittes popularity.

Its politics of French intervening to favour the Italian revolutionary, by which it could have won its popularity back, became by the diplomatic procedure of Louis Philippe destroyed made. The resignations of Lafayette and Dupont de l'Eure continued to undermine its government. Since they were not able to provide on the roads of Paris for they were finally completely discredited. Finally Louis Phillipe thought, in which intention, from those, which wanted to determine its fate to release it would be safe, those, which made it to extract its confidence. In March 1831 Laffitte withdrew, prayed around assigning to God and to humans because of the role, which he had played, by having set Louis Philippe on the throne. It was politically and financially ruined. Its affairs were completed 1836, in the following year developed it a credit bank, which during its lifetimes a success were, but 1848 had to be closed.

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