Claude Pâris La Montagne
Claude Pâris dit la Montagne (August 12, 1670, Moirans - April 18, 1744, Serpaize), was a French banker and bibliophile, Lord of Moirans, Serpaize and Croix Fontaine. The suffix “La Montagne” comes from his mother Justine Trennanay La Montagne. Early life Claude was the second of the four Pâris brothers, financiers during the reign of Louis XV. After studying law in Grenoble, he began his career by assisting his father Jean Pâris, a cereal merchant in Moirans, supplying grain to the army. In April 1691 he went to Lyon and asked the magistrates of the city to release the wheat kept in store so that he could send it to the army in Grenoble, promising to reimburse them when the spring thaw again made it possible to stock up in Burgundy again. He thus obtained six thousand sacks of wheat. He successively occupied the functions of director of food on behalf of the munitionnaire of the army of Italy (1692-1697), then of treasurer of the Extraordinary of Wars in the army of Fland ...
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