# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/pierre-paul-lemercier-de-la-riviere-de-saint-medard
# Generated: 2026-08-16T12:02:07.341Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/pierre-paul-lemercier-de-la-riviere-de-saint-medard"
name: "Pierre-Paul Lemercier de La Rivière de Saint-Médard"
slug: "pierre-paul-lemercier-de-la-riviere-de-saint-medard"
description: "Pierre-Paul Le Mercier de La Rivière 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. In 1774, Mercier wrote a letter to Benjamin Franklin proposing to purchase 5,000 tons of Philadelphia flour."
tagline: "French economist"
image: "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/7/77/Mercier_de_La_Rivi%C3%A8re_-_Ordre_naturel_et_essentiel_des_soci%C3%A9t%C3%A9s_politiques%2C_1767_-_5679025.tif/lossy-page1-330px-Mercier_de_La_Rivi%C3%A8re_-_Ordre_naturel_et_essentiel_des_soci%C3%A9t%C3%A9s_politiques%2C_1767_-_5679025.tif.jpg"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "France"
  isoCode: "FR"
category:
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  slug: "academics"
profileType:
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  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q39631"
birthDate: "1719-03-10"
deathDate: "1801-11-27"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           41.23
  momentum:             0
  historical:           9.608496
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     60
  profileCompleteness:  70
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
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  country:  null
  category: null
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump