Antoine Pâris

[1][2][3]: 4 After studying law in Grenoble with his brother Claude, he became a lawyer in the fr:Parlement du Dauphiné where he established a valuable network of contacts with the nobility of the province.

[4][3]: 13  At 33, with his younger brother Claude, he succeeded in April 1691 the feat of supplying French troops surrounded by the armies of Charles Emmanuel II, Duke of Savoy, in Pinerolo during the War of the League of Augsburg.

During the great famine of 1693-1694 Antoine Paris was entrusted with supplying the population of Dauphiné, using logistical approaches developed during military campaigns.

[3]: 38  This building was immortalized by engravings made by Jean Mariette and offered to Antoine Pâris by the King of Poland Stanisław Leszczyński, future father-in-law of Louis XV.

The liquidation of the debt by the operation of the visa in 1721 entrusts to the Pâris brothers an exorbitant power since with a stroke of the pen they could decide on the bankruptcy of an individual.

The Visa Commission was responsible for reviewing requests for conversion into gold of the banknotes purchased by hundreds of thousands of savers, determining whether or not their behavior was dictated by speculation.

The Duke of Bourbon then stirred up a cabal against La Jonchère's patron, Claude Le Blanc, and accused him of having embezzled funds from the Ministry of War.

The enemies of the Pâris brothers accused them in 1725 of having, shipped large quantities of wheat abroad in 1722 and then brought it back into France to resell it there at an exorbitant price.

On June 11, 1726 Cardinal Fleury assumed control of the French government and the Pâris brothers were exiled again; they were deemed too powerful in Paris and suspected of operating a cartel over the grain market.