Crédit Lyonnais
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The Crédit Lyonnais was a major French bank, created in 1863 and absorbed by former rival Crédit Agricole in 2003. Its head office was initially in Lyon but moved to Paris in 1882. In the early years of the 20th century, it was the world's largest bank by total assets.
Former Crédit Lyonnais headquarters from 1882 to 2010 at 17-23, boulevard des Italiens in Paris
Share of the Crédit Lyonnais, issued 1 November 1863
1881 Calendar advertising the Crédit Lyonnais, including the new Paris head office (center) and branches at rue de Rivoli (left) and Les Halles (right)
1955 advertising poster
The Comptoir national d'escompte de Paris (CNEP), from 1854 to 1889 Comptoir d'escompte de Paris (CEP), was a major French bank active from 1848 to 1966.
Mosaic medallions of the five continents on the new facade of the CEP headquarters building (early 1880s), signaling the bank's ambitions of worldwide expansion
Façade of the building used from 1906 as Brussels office of the CNEP, later remodeled, photographed in 2011
1918 patriotic poster by Auguste Leroux urging citizens to subscribe to a war loan through CNEP
National loan advert (1920) displaying the CNEP's Parisian headquarters building