Jean-Louis Falquet

Jean-Louis Falquet (19 November 1768 in Geneva – 6 November 1842 in Geneva) was a Genevan politician and banquier.

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.

Falquet was an officer in the French army, which is why he was "banished for life in absentia", (bannis à perpétuité par contumace) in the First Geneva Revolutionary Court (Le premier tribunal révolutionnaire Genevois) in the summer of 1794.

Falquet was a member of the Geneva government during and after the Restoration:[1][2][3] Falquet's paternal ancestors were Jean Robert Falquet (1741-1819), a member of the Small Council, and his father was André Falquet, a merchant and politician.

Certificate of Incorporation of the Bank De Candolle Mallet & Cie (1805)
Inscription engraved in marble on the Hôtel de Ville de Genève, commemorating the restoration in 1813, installed in 1892.