The relentless attack against bankers during the Terror was not the product of exceptional circumstances that the young Republic was called to undertake.Rather, itwas animated by a deeply rooted suspicion towards bankers already present in 1789. The difficult financial situation that France experienced required new solutions : in this context, the banker-deputy of Étampes, Jean-Francois Laborde de Méréville, proposed the creation of a national bank in cooperation with the most prominent commercial establishments in the capital. The Parisian press regardless of political persuasion from royalist to patriot accused Laborde Méréville not only of striving to create this bank for his own private interest, but also ofmolding the entire political structure that theNational Assembly was then constructing. The analysis of the contemporary press shows that the attacks against this project were not personal, but displayed a general sentiment antagonistic to the banking world at the end of the eighteenth century.