Joseph François Augustin Monneron

Joseph François Augustin Monneron (24 December 1756,

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) was French banker and politician, as well as an active merchant in New Orleans seeking to reestablish French influence there after the

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. He was deputy for Paris to the Legislative Assembly until retiring from it in 1792. His brothers Louis Monneron (1742-1805) and

Pierre Antoine Monneron Pierre Antoine Monneron (16 January 1747 – 8 June 1801) was a French merchant, banker, writer and politician. Monneron was born in Annonay, Ardèche. He was deputy to the French National Convention for Mauritius. His brothers, Joseph F ...

(1747-1801) were deputies to the

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for the East Indies and Mauritius respectively. Other brothers were the deputy Charles Claude Ange Monneron and the engineer

Paul Mérault Monneron Paul Mérault Monneron or de Monneron (23 February 1748, Annonay, Ardèche – May 1788, Vanikoro) was an engineer officer in the French armed forces and from 1785 to 1788 a member of Lapérouse's expedition. Family His eldest brother Charle ...

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