Jean-Roland Malet or Mallet (c. 1675 – 12 April 1736, Paris) was a French economic historian, author of the ''Comptes rendus de l'administration des finances du royaume'' (''Accounts of the financial administration of the kingdom''), which constitute the most important source of economic and financial data for

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France.

Biography

Son of a master carpenter, he was commissaire-général des vivres de la marine in the département of Caen, puis secrétaire de

Louis XIV , house = Bourbon , father = Louis XIII , mother = Anne of Austria , birth_date = , birth_place = Château de Saint-Germain-en-Laye, Saint-Germain-en-Laye, France , death_date = , death_place = Palace of Ver ...

et trésorier général des pensions militaires en 1707. He was elected a member of the Académie Française in 1714 for having written an ''Ode sur les glorieux succès des armes du Roy'' (''Ode on the glorious successes of the King's armies''), which won the poetry prize "in the judgement of the Messieurs of the Académie". At a certain point in his career, he became chief clerk to Nicolas Desmarets,

Controller-General of Finances The Controller-General or Comptroller-General of Finances (french: Contrôleur général des finances) was the name of the minister in charge of finances in France from 1661 to 1791. It replaced the former position of Superintendent of Finances ('' ...

and nephew of Colbert, for whom he edited the ''Comptes rendus de l'administration des finances du royaume''. The full title of this work, completed around 1720 but only published in 1789 under the name Jean-Roland Ma''ll''et, was ''Comptes rendus de l'administration des finances du royaume de France pendant les onze dernières années du règne de

Henri IV Henry IV (french: Henri IV; 13 December 1553 – 14 May 1610), also known by the epithets Good King Henry or Henry the Great, was King of Navarre (as Henry III) from 1572 and King of France from 1589 to 1610. He was the first monarc ...

, le régne de

Louis XIII Louis XIII (; sometimes called the Just; 27 September 1601 – 14 May 1643) was King of France from 1610 until his death in 1643 and King of Navarre (as Louis II) from 1610 to 1620, when the crown of Navarre was merged with the French crown ...

et soixante cinq années de celui de

avec des recherches sur l'origine des impôts sur les revenus et dépenses de nos rois depuis Philippe le Bel jusqu'à Louis XIV et différents mémoires sur le numéraire et sa valeur sous les trois règnes ci-dessus'' (''Report on the administration of the finances of the kingdom of France during the last eleven years of the reign of Henri IV, the reign of Louis XIII and the sixty five years of the reign of Louis XIV with research on the origin of taxes in the revenues and dispensations of our kings from Philip IV to Louis XIV and different

mémoire In French culture, the word ''mémoire'', as in un mémoire ("a memory" – indefinite article), reflects the writer's own experiences and memories. The word has no direct English translation. Up to the 18th century The word appeared in the course ...

s on the currency and its value under the three reigns listed above'').

Bibliography

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''Jean-Roland Malet, premier historien des finances de la monarchie française''
Margaret et Richard BONNEY, Comité pour l'histoire économique et financière de la France, 1993, 353 p ().

External links

Contains a biography, a detailed analysis of his work, and graphs of the economic and financial findings of the ''Comptes rendus''. {{DEFAULTSORT:Malet, Jean-Roland 1675 births 1736 deaths 18th-century French historians French economists Members of the Académie Française Economic history of the Ancien Régime Ancien Régime office-holders Economic historians French male non-fiction writers