Paris Monetary Conference (1867)
The International Monetary Conference was held in Paris from 17 June to 6 July 1867, the first of a series of international monetary conferences. The conference was the brainchild of French statesman Félix Esquirou de Parieu, who had been instrumental in the creation two years before of the Latin Monetary Union. Overview The Paris Exhibition of 1867 furnished the occasion for summoning the conference, which was attended by Austria, Baden, Bavaria, Belgium, Denmark, Greece, France, Italy, the Netherlands, the Ottoman Empire, Portugal, Prussia, Russia, Spain, Sweden (jointly with Norway), Switzerland, the United Kingdom, the United States, and Württemberg. The inaugural session was chaired by French foreign minister Lionel de Moustier, then the next three by Parieu. As the conference was viewed as having had a successful start, Napoleon III, as a sign of imperial approbation, deisgnated Prince Napoléon-Jérôme Bonaparte to take the chair; the prince cha ...
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