The ''Comptoirs d'Escompte'' or ''Comptoirs Nationaux d'Escompte'', literally "
ationaldiscount counters", were 65 local banks created in a hurry in March 1848 by the government of the
Second French Republic
The French Second Republic (french: Deuxième République Française or ), officially the French Republic (), was the republican government of France that existed between 1848 and 1852. It was established in February 1848, with the February Revo ...
to maintain financial stability in the turmoil following the
February Revolution
The February Revolution ( rus, Февра́льская револю́ция, r=Fevral'skaya revolyutsiya, p=fʲɪvˈralʲskəjə rʲɪvɐˈlʲutsɨjə), known in Soviet historiography as the February Bourgeois Democratic Revolution and somet ...
. Most of them disappeared when the government withdrew its support in May 1852, except the following:
* Comptoir d'escompte d'
Alès
Alès (; oc, Alès) is a Communes of France, commune in the Gard Departments of France, department in the Occitania (administrative region), Occitanie regions of France, region in southern France. It is one of the Subprefectures in France, su ...
(1848-?)
* Comptoir d'escompte d'
Angoulême
Angoulême (; Poitevin-Saintongeais: ''Engoulaeme''; oc, Engoleime) is a communes of France, commune, the Prefectures of France, prefecture of the Charente Departments of France, department, in the Nouvelle-Aquitaine region of southwestern Franc ...
(1848-1897?)
* Comptoir d'escompte de
Caen
Caen (, ; nrf, Kaem) is a commune in northwestern France. It is the prefecture of the department of Calvados. The city proper has 105,512 inhabitants (), while its functional urban area has 470,000,[Colmar
Colmar (, ; Alsatian: ' ; German during 1871–1918 and 1940–1945: ') is a city and commune in the Haut-Rhin department and Grand Est region of north-eastern France. The third-largest commune in Alsace (after Strasbourg and Mulhouse), it is ...]
(1848-1884)
* Comptoir d'escompte de
Dôle (1848-1892?)
* Comptoir d'escompte de
Lille
Lille ( , ; nl, Rijsel ; pcd, Lile; vls, Rysel) is a city in the northern part of France, in French Flanders. On the river Deûle, near France's border with Belgium, it is the capital of the Hauts-de-France Regions of France, region, the Pref ...
(1848-1866), a predecessor entity of the
Crédit du Nord
is a French retail banking network. It consists of the following banks:
* , Toulouse, Aquitaine (oldest existing bank in France, founded in 1760)
* , Alsace, Lorraine
* , Savoy
* , Massif Central
* , Lyon
* , Limoges
* , Marseille
* itself in t ...
*
Comptoir d'escompte de Mulhouse (1848-1930), a predecessor entity of
BNP Paribas
BNP Paribas is a French international banking group, founded in 2000 from the merger between Banque Nationale de Paris (BNP, "National Bank of Paris") and Paribas, formerly known as the Banque de Paris et des Pays-Bas. The full name of the grou ...
*
Comptoir National d'Escompte de Paris
The Comptoir national d'escompte de Paris (CNEP), from 1854 to 1889 Comptoir d'escompte de Paris (CEP), was a major French bank active from 1848 to 1966.
The CEP was created by decree on 10 March 1848 by the French Provisional Government, in res ...
(1848-1966), another predecessor entity of
BNP Paribas
BNP Paribas is a French international banking group, founded in 2000 from the merger between Banque Nationale de Paris (BNP, "National Bank of Paris") and Paribas, formerly known as the Banque de Paris et des Pays-Bas. The full name of the grou ...
* (1848-1935), avsorbed in 1935 by the
Crédit Industriel et Commercial
The Crédit Industriel et Commercial (CIC, "Industrial and Commercial Credit Company") is a bank and financial services group in France, founded in 1859. It has been majority owned by Crédit Mutuel, one of the country's top five banking groups, s ...
* Comptoir d'escompte de
Sainte-Marie-aux-Mines
Sainte-Marie-aux-Mines (; ; Alsatian: ''Màrkìrisch'') is a commune in the Haut-Rhin department and Grand Est region of north-eastern France.
Geography
Sainte-Marie-aux-Mines is located in the massif of the Vosges Mountains, where it occupies ...
(1848-1867?)
* Comptoir d'escompte de
Sablé (1848-1890s?)
The Comptoir d'escompte de
Bayeux
Bayeux () is a Communes of France, commune in the Calvados (department), Calvados Departments of France, department in Normandy (administrative region), Normandy in northwestern France.
Bayeux is the home of the Bayeux Tapestry, which depicts ...
was created a bit later in 1853, and went bankrupt in 1869.
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Defunct banks of France
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