Pierre-Paul_Lemercier_de_La_Rivière_de_Saint-Médard
Pierre-Paul Le Mercier de La Rivière (10 March 1719 – 27 November 1801) was a French colonial administrator and physiocrat economist. Mercier was a councilor at the Parlement of Paris, intendant at Martinique in the West Indies (1759-1764), and noted advocate of Physiocracy.[1] In 1774, Mercier wrote a letter to Benjamin Franklin proposing to purchase 5,000 tons of Philadelphia flour.[2]
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He was born at Saumur, (Maine-et-Loire)[3] and died in 1801 in Grigny, Essonne[4]