Félix Esquirou de Parieu
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Félix Marie Louis Pierre Esquirou de Parieu (1815, Aurillac - 1893, Paris) was a french Stateman.
He was notably Minister of Education and Public Worship from 1849 to 1851, and headed the French Council of State in 1870.
He is considered as a precusor of the European Monetary Union, as he dedicated most of his political life to promote the idea of an European single currency. He was one of the founders of the Latin Monetary Union.
