Crédit National

Crédit national

Formation	1919 (1919)
Founder	Charles Laurent, Emmanuel Derode
Headquarters	Paris, France
Services	banking

Former seat of Crédit National at 45-47, rue Saint-Dominique in Paris

Crédit National bond dated 20 November 1919

The Crédit national (lit. 'National Credit [Company]') was a former French banking institution created under the impetus of Charles François Laurent, an expert in international financing, by a special law on 10 October 1919. A hybrid between public and private-sector banking templates, it was intended to facilitate the financing of France’s reconstruction following the devastation of World War I. Crédit National eventually merged in 1996 with Banque Française du Commerce Extérieur to form Natexis, later absorbed into Groupe BPCE.

Leaders

Presidents

• Charles Lawrence: 1919
• Louis Martin: 1920 — 1936
• Wilfrid Baumgartner: 1936 — 1949
• Jacques Brunet: 1949 — 1960
• John Saltes: 1960-1972
• Bernard Clappier: 1973 — 1974
• André de Lattre: 1974 — 1982
• Jean Saint-Geours: 1982 — 1987
• Paul Mentré: 1987 — 1990
• Yves Lyon-Caen: 1990 — 1993
• Jean-Yves Haberer: 1993 — 1994
• Emmanuel Rodocanachi: 1994 — 1998

Directors

• Marcel Frachon: 1919 — 1929
• Jean du Buit: 1929 — 1942

See also

• Crédit Foncier de France
• Bank of France
• Timeline of banks in Europe

Sources

• Robert beef, The National Credit , Paris, Presses Universitaires de France, 1923.
• The National Credit, medium credit institution and long term, 1951.
• National Credit 1919-1969 , Paris, Havas-Conseil 1969.
• Patrice Baubeau Arnaud Lavit d'Hautefort, Michel Lescure, The National Credit from 1919 to 1994. public history of a private company, Paris, JC Lattes, 1994.
• National Committee Corporate Credit. Jubilee 1945-1995 1995.

External links

• "National Credit, medium credit institution and long term" (1951) on persee.fr (in French)
• Le Crédit National - Archives pour une histoire de la production cinématographique française (1941-1966) (Cinémathèque française) (in French)