Germain Garnier, Marquis, (8 November 1754 – 4 October 1821), was a French politician and economist of the 18th and 19th centuries.
Garnier was educated for the law, and obtained when young the office of procureur to the Châtelet in Paris.
After the Restoration he obtained a peerage, and on the return of Louis XVIII, after the Hundred Days, he became minister of state and member of privy council, and in 1817 was created a marquis.
At court he was, when young, noted for his facile power of writing society verse, but his literary reputation depends rather on his later works on political economy, especially his translation, with notes and introduction, of Adam Smith's Wealth of Nations (1805)[1] and his Histoire de la monnaie (2 vols., 1819).
[1] The Description géographique, physique, et politique du département de Seine-et-Oise (1802) was drawn up from his instructions.