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1stDuc de Gaëte Martin-Michel-Charles Gaudin
Portrait byJoseph-Marie Vien (1806)
Governor of the Banque de France
In office 6 April 1820 – 25 February 1836
Preceded by	Jacques Laffitte
Succeeded by	Jean Charles Joachim Davillier [fr]
Deputy forAisne
In office 22 August 1815 – 17 July 1819
Minister of Finance
In office November 1799 – March 1814
Monarch	Napoleon I
Succeeded by	Dominique-Vincent Ramel-Nogaret (provisional, Hundred Days)
In office 3 November 1795 – 8 November 1795
Preceded by	Edmond Louis Alexis Dubois-Crancé
Succeeded by	Guillaume-Charles Faipoult
Personal details
Born	(1756-01-19)19 January 1756 Saint-Denis,Kingdom of France
Died	5 November 1841(1841-11-05) (aged 85) Gennevilliers,Kingdom of France
Occupation	Statesman administrator

Martin-Michel-Charles Gaudin,1st duc de Gaëte (19 January 1756 – 5 November 1841) was aFrench statesman who served asMinister of Finance of theFrench Empire underNapoleon I, from November 1799 to March 1814, and during theHundred Days following Napoleon's return from exile inElba.

Gaudin was born inSaint-Denis in 1756.

He wasMinister of Finance under theDirectory from 3 November 1795 to 8 November 1795.

After Napoleon made him hisMinister of Finance, where he held office until 1814, Gaudin organised the French direct contributions, reintroduced direct taxes ("droits réunis"), founded theBanque de France and theCour des comptes, and set up the first cadaster, or record of land ownership as a basis of taxation. He was rewarded in 1809 with theduché grand-fief ofGaeta and the title ofduc de Gaëte, in the then-French-controlledKingdom of Naples; effectively, this was a life peerage, nominal but of high rank. During theHundred Days return, Bonaparte reserved a seat for Gaudin in the planned imperial Chamber of Peers, but that never materialised.

After theBourbon Restoration, he was deputy for theAisne département, from 22 August 1815 to 17 July 1819, sitting with the constitutional party.

In 1820, he became governor of theBanque de France.

He died in theGennevilliers château, near Paris, in 1841. He left hisMemoirs, Opinions and Writings.

• Larousse (undated French encyclopaedia, early 20th century)
• Heraldica.org- Napoleonic heraldry

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