Claude-Marie Courmes

{{Infobox officeholder

| image = Claude-Marie Courmes(1770-1865).png

| alt =

| caption = Claude-Marie Courmes
(1770-1865),
Photo Charles Nègre (1852).Alain Sabatier "Jean Luce, Photographe collectionneur" collection : Les photographes des Alpes-Maritimes. editing : Conseil Général des Alpes-Maritimes. {{ISBN|978-2-86006-010-3}}. 2009 page 9 and 10. ,([https://www.departement06.fr/documents/Import/decouvrir-les-am/jean-luce-web.pdf read online])

| office = Mayor of Grasse (1830-1835),
Deputy of Var (1831-1834),
General Councilor of Var Canton of Grasse-Nord (1833-1836)

| birth_name = Claude-Marie

| birth_date = {{birth date|1770|09|09|df=y}}

| birth_place = Grasse, Kingdom of France

| death_date = {{death date and age|1865|1|31|1770|09|09|df=y}}

| death_place = Grasse, French empire

| resting_place = Cimetière Sainte-Brigitte de Grasse

| party = {{flagicon|Kingdom of France}} Legitimists

| occupation = French merchant, shipowner and politician

| awards = knight of the royal order of the Legion of Honour (26 janvier 1833...{{Base Léonore|LH/611/53}})

| spouse = Marie Marguerite Justine Isnard

| relatives = Courmes family

}}

Claude-Marie Courmes (September 9, 1770, Grasse, Alpes-Maritimes – January 31, 1865, Grasse, Alpes-Maritimes) was a French merchant, shipowner and politician.

Mayor of Grasse from 1830 to 1835, he was elected deputy for Var from July 1831 to May 1834 and General Councilor of Var Canton of Grasse-Nord from 1833 to 1836.Frédéric d'Agay "Grands notables du Premier Empire", éditing CNRS, 1987. page 211

Family

File:Father Louis Courme Arms.svg, Armorial général de France. Provence, Grasse, {{vol.|29}},([https://gallica.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/bpt6k111476m/f276.image read online]).]]

A direct descendant in the agnatic line of the Huguenot captain Luc Courmes (1580, Grasse),Myriam A. Orban,

Diplômée de la faculté de théologie protestante de Paris et de Montpellier : Grasse, ses seigneurs et la religion prétendue réformée au XVIe siècle. Recherches régionales. Alpes-Maritimes et contrées limitrophes. 2020, page 21. |url=https://www.departement06.fr/documents/A-votre-service/Culture/archives/recherches-regionales/recherches_regionales_217_1.pdfChristelle Accary and 16 other authors, "Entre terre, mer et ciel. Les cimetières des Alpes-Maritim (XIIe - XXIe siècles" editing Département des Alpes-Maritime snook. 2020, page 28.Christian Gabert "Histoire des familles" available at the Historical Library of Grasse

Claude-Marie Courmes belonged to an ancient French bourgeoisie [fr].Hervé de Fontmichel, Le Pays de Grasse, editing Grasset, 1963, p.30.Gilette Gauthier-Ziegler, Histoire de Grasse au Moyen Âge de 1155 à 1482, editing Picard, 1935, p. 137

He married in 1801 Marie Marguerite Justine Isnard (1779+1851), she is the niece of Baron Isnard.Frédéric d'Agay "Grands notables du Premier Empire", éditing CNRS, 1987. page 211

He acquired the old Clapiers-Cabris hotel in Grasse. with his younger brother Antoine Joseph Courmes (1777+1858).Collection Helene Costa "Le musée provencal du costume et du bijoux" editing Manufacture des Deux Ponts. 2017. page 37 The latter is the great-grandfather of the squadron leader Marcel Courmes.

Trader and shipowner

The Courmes houses undoubtedly represented by far the two most important businesses in Grasse, very prosperous, the soap factory maintains close relationships by its very nature, with the oil mill and the emerging perfumerylivre Crisp The object, the commercial goal sought is vast. Alongside leathers, wheat, oils, flowers, tropical products and private banking will soon appear. The Grasse "merchants" form a caste where family ties and interest pacts are extremely entangled.Hervé de Fontmichel, Le Pays de Grasse, editing Grasset, 1963

The Courmes had warehouses in Grasse and Cannes,Jean Marie Cresp, Grasse Capital of Oriental Provence {{p.|29}}Chantal Raybaud, Cannes: a century of tradition maritime Editions Serre, 1987, {{p.|26}} Claude-Marie Courmes' soap factory is as modern as the Grasse factories.Les Alpes-Maritimes, 1860-1914: integration and particularisms: acts of Nice conference, 1987, University of Nice, Faculty of Law and Economic Sciences, Center for the History of Law, Serre, 1988,{{p.|373}} The Courmes house, linked to major Marseille commerce,Alain Ruggiero, Histoire de Cannes, Éditions Privat, 2011 invests in a commercial fleet and takes shares notably in the "Tartane Saint-Pierre", "L'avenir" and the "Rose-Louise".Jean- Marie Cresp, Grasse capital of Eastern Provence, TAC Motifs. Spéracèdes 1992, {{p.|65}}

Political career

Courmes was part of a group of young royalists from Grasse, the "Children of the Sun" who notably formed a counter-revolutionary gathering on Ventôse 7, Year V (February 25, 1797) in Grasse on the Place aux Aires where "Le Réveil" was sung. Police report : "Claude [Marie] Courmes fils, merchant, set the tone during the demonstration on the square with cries of "Long live the King! » "Down with the Republic!; we also saw him that day distributing rifles to the participants".Hervé Court de Fontmichel et Michel Vovelle, "Deux notables provençaux sous la Révolution française", p.199

File:Ancien_hôtel_Clapier-Cabris.jpg

Suspected in Year II, he entered the municipal council after Thermidor, he was prosecuted after the republican coup of Year V (1796–1797 September 4), then he was appointed again to the municipal council under the Empire. Member of the district electoral college in 1804, general councilor of Var from 1811 to 1833, sitting in the majority supporting the July monarchy, he was placed by the government as mayor of Grasse in 1830. François-Xavier Emmanuelli describes him as "A soap maker, moderate royalist for whom the change of dynasty and the limited expansion of the censary regime constituted the final concessions to the new spirit". Confirmed to this position in 1832, elected deputy for Var (Grasse constituency) on July 5, 1831, he took his place in the ranks of the government majority and voted with it until 1834, the year in which he gave up his seat on May 25, 1834.Frédéric d'Agay "Les Grands Notables du Premier Empire", Var, CNRS, 1987, page 211{{cite book|date=1994|first1=François Xavier|language=Fr|last1=Emmanuelli|page=100|publisher=Éd. Ouest-France|title=La Provence contemporaine de 1800 à nos jours|isbn=9782737302084 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=retnAAAAMAAJ&q=%22Claude-Marie+Courmes,+%C3%A9tait+un+savonnier,+royaliste+mod%C3%A9r%C3%A9+pour+qui+le+changement+de+dynastie+et+l'%C3%A9largissement+limit%C3%A9+du+r%C3%A9gime%22}}

"Under the Restoration, the prefect of Var, in his report on the voters of 1816, said of him: "A rich merchant, he has means and through the Baron Isnard family to which he belongs, he has a lot of influence. His opinions are those of a member of the center. He is a friend of order, devoted to the government. He is one of the most enlightened men in the general council".Frédéric d'Agay "Les Grands Notables du Premier Empire", Var, CNRS, 1987, page 211

At the end of his life he became blind. Charles Nègre made his photographic portrait in 1852.Alain Sabatier "Jean Luce, Photographe collectionneur" collection : Les photographes des Alpes-Maritimes. editing : Conseil Général des Alpes-Maritimes. {{ISBN|978-2-86006-010-3}}. 2009 page 9 and 10. ,([https://www.departement06.fr/documents/Import/decouvrir-les-am/jean-luce-web.pdf read online]) He died in Grasse at the age of 94.

National honours

50px knight of the royal order of the Legion of Honour (26 janvier 1833.{{Base Léonore|LH/611/53}})

Claude-Marie Courmes

Family

Trader and shipowner

Political career

National honours

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