Charles Gabriel Le Bègue de Germiny (3 November 1799 – 22 February 1871) was a French financier and politician.

Charles Gabriel Le Bègue, Count of Germiny was born on 3 November 1799 (12 Brumaire Year viii) in Cliponville, Seine-Maritime.

He left his post in the Conseil d'État in 1840 to become chief of staff to his father-in-law, Jean-Georges Humann, who had been appointed Minister of Finance.

[1] On the day after his dismissal from the cabinet Le Bègue de Germiny was named commander of the Legion of Honor.

[3] He returned to his posts of Receiver-General of the Seine Inférieure and Regent of the Banque de France, holding this office until July 1854.

This was formed by merging three banks that had been founded in Paris, Nevers and Marseille in 1852 to provide mortgages to finance agricultural activity.

Germiny took advantage of the resulting confidence in the bank to issue large amounts of debt secured by the mortgages.

[3] Germiny was called upon to sort out the financial confusion of the Convention of Miramar of 11 April 1864 after the Archduke Maximilian of Austria had accepted the crown of Mexico.

Germiny was involved in various other financial affairs regarding the Crédit Mobilier, Compagnie immobilière, Imperial Ottoman Bank and the Orléans and Nord railway companies.

At the time of the fall of the Second Empire during the Franco-Prussian War (19 July 1870 – 10 May 1871) he was President of the Compagnie des chantiers et ateliers de l’Océan (Marine shipyards company).

[1] His son, Eugène Le Begue Germiny, was a distinguished advocate and municipal councillor in Paris, but became involved in a sex scandal in 1877 and moved to Buenos Aires.