Jean-Louis Falquet


Jean-Louis Falquet was a Genevan politician and banker.

Life

Business career

Together with four other limited partners, he founded the bank De Candolle Mallet & Cie in Geneva on 23 July 1805, the day on which the partnership's deed of incorporation was signed. Today, the bank is known as the Pictet Group.

Military career

Falquet was an officer in the French army, which is why he was "banished for life in absentia", in the First Geneva Revolutionary Court in the summer of 1794.

Political career

Falquet was a member of the Geneva government during and after the Restoration:
  • 1813 Member of the Provisional Council that restored the Republic of Geneva on 31 December 1813
  • 1814 Clerk of State
  • 1815 Member of the Council of State and sole State Clerk
  • 1816 Second Clerk of State.
    As he was elected Syndic in 1817, he was unable to complete his function as Secretary of State, to which he had been elected for nine years in 1815.
  • 1817 Syndic de la garde
  • 1818 Member of the Council of State
  • 1819 Syndic
  • 1820 Diet
  • 1820 Member of the Council of State
  • 1821 Member of the Council of State
  • 1822 Member of the Council of State
  • 1823 First Syndic
  • 1824 Member of the Council of State
  • 1825 Member of the Council of State Diet
  • Member of the Council of State
  • 1831 Member of the Council of State
  • 1839 1 of 24 members from the Representative Council on the [Court of Appeal">Tagsatzung">Diet
  • Member of the Council of State
  • 1831 Member of the Council of State
  • 1839 1 of 24 members from the Representative Council on the [Court of Appeal

Memorials and medailles

  • On 31 December 1892, the names of the 22 members of the provisional government of 31 December 1813 were engraved in a marble plaque on the façade to the left of the main entrance to the Maison de Ville, in commemoration of the restoration of the Republic.
  • Medal commemorating the 80th anniversary of the Restoration of the Republic of Geneva, in memory of Ami Lullin and the Comité de l'Indépendance, minted in 1893.

Family

Falquet's paternal ancestors were Jean Robert Falquet, a member of the Small Council, and his father was André Falquet, a merchant and politician.
  • From 27 July to 7 August 1888, a succession question was discussed at the Court of Appeal in re Grove, in which the question was whether cousins of initially illegitimate children, who were "legitimised" by subsequent marriage, were entitled to inherit as "next of kin". Documents can also be found in Geneva.

Literature

  • Olivier Perroux : Tradition, vocation et progrès. Les élites bourgeoises de Genève , Thèse de doctorat, Université de Genève. Seite 253 Fussnote 663.
  • : Version of 6 January 2003.