Name Claude Piarron | Died 1773 | |
Claude Humbert Piarron de Chamousset (1717–1773) was a French philanthropist.
Born in Paris, he was the originator of mutual benefit societies. According to A. Piron, Du Service des Postes (1838), in 1758 he established a new postal system at Paris charging two sols for a single letter under one ounce, replacing the earlier postal system established in 1653 by Jean-Jacques Renouard de Villayer.
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