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 the councilor at the Parliament of Paris, intendant at Martinique in the West Indies 1759-1764, and mentioned advocate of Physiocracy. In 1774, Mercier wrote a letter to Benjamin Franklin proposing to purchase 5,000 tons of Philadelphia flour.
He was born at Saumur, Maine-et-Loire and died in 1801 in Grigny, Essonne