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unusual facts about Banque de France


Chamalières

Chamalières is the place where the Banque de France located its printing works in 1923, which printed former French franc banknotes, and now prints Euro banknotes.


Bülent Şenver

In order to develop an off-site banking surveillance and an early warning system to be used by the Central Bank of the Turkey, he made studies at Bank of England, Banque de France and Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (USA).

Cité de l'économie et de la monnaie

The Banque de France has announced the opening of the Cité de l’économie et de la monnaie during a press conference held by Governor Christian Noyer, on May 25, 2011.

Universcience, and especially the Cité des Sciences et de l'Industrie : Christian Noyer, Governor of the Banque de France, and Claudie Haigneré, head of Universcience, have signed a cooperation agreement on the museography of the future Cité de l’économie et de la monnaie.

Liaquat Ahamed

It follows the life and actions of the then chiefs of the central banks: Benjamin Strong Jr. of the New York Federal Reserve, Montagu Norman of the Bank of England, Émile Moreau of the Banque de France, and Hjalmar Schacht of the Reichsbank.

Pascal Payet

On November 20, 1997, he participated in an attack on a Banque de France armored car in Salon-de-Provence during which a guard was killed.


see also

Musulin

Toni Musulin (b. ca. 1970), former security driver, stole 11.6 millions euro from Banque de France