 Instead a "consulado de mercaderes" (a merchants' guild) was established in Caracas in 1793.One of the most active proponents of the move was François Cabarrus, a prominent company stockholder hailing from a merchant family in Bayonne (Labourd), increasingly involved in Spanish finances and politics.David Grimm (architect)

David Ivanovich Grimm (; 1823–1898) was a Russian architect, educator and historian of art of Byzantine Empire, Georgia and Armenia.