Félix Esquirou de Parieu

Félix Marie Louis Pierre de Esquirou Parieu ( born April 15, 1815 in Aurillac, † April 8, 1893 in Paris) was a French politician and economist.

Political life

He was a lawyer and became a lawyer in 1841 at the Court of Appeal of Riom. The Cantal he represented in 1848 in the National Assembly. He was a Bonapartist supporters of Charles -Louis -Napoleon Bonaparte, the future Napoleon III. the second French Republic to dominate in its endeavor.

He was Minister of Education 1849-1851. According to the coup d'etat of December 2, 1851 Napoleon appointed him a member of the Consultative Commission. He was Chairman of the Commission of the Interior, Justice and lessons. At the beginning of 1852 he was appointed State Council and President of the Department of Finance. A short time later he became a member of the Legislative.

Between 1865 and 1870 he was Vice President of the State Council and in 1870 he was its head. Between 1876 and 1885 he was a senator.

Economist

In addition, he emerged as economics writer. He was regarded as a specialist in the field of taxation. He said since 1857 the gold standard and closer international cooperation in the monetary system. He is regarded by his efforts to a single European currency, as one of the masterminds of the European currency area and thus also of the European Union. His ideas, however, were realized only form of the Latin Monetary Union.