page_title: Emmanuel Crétet
section_title: Consulate
hierarchical_section_title: Emmanuel Crétet / Consulate
context_page_description: Emmanuel Crétet, Comte de Champmol was a French merchant, financier and politician.
  He was the first governor of the Banque de France.
context_section_description: Crétet supported the coup-d'état of 18 Brumaire (9 November 1799) in which Napoleon came to power as First Consul.
  On 4 Nivôse year VIII he was appointed both to the Senate and to the Council of State.
  He was named Councilor of State in charge of bridges and roads.
  He was willing to support new construction techniques, such as iron bridges in Paris. He undertook various canal projects, of which the Saint-Quentin canal was the first.
  Crétet was one of the most active negotiators of the Concordat that reestablished the Catholic religion in France.
  He was one of the signatories to the Concordat of 15 July 1801 that aimed to achieve peace with the church.
  On 11 Thermidor Year X Crétet issued a report on a central bank for France.
  He said it must be independent of the government, free in the way it used its capital and credit. 
  If the government interfered, the bank would never establish credit and would be bound to fail.
caption: Signature of the Concordat on 15 July 1801. From left to right: Joseph Bonaparte, Napoleon, Portalis, Cardinal Giuseppe Spina, d'Hauterive and Cretet.
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