In the middle of the nineteenth century, the French Emperor Napoleon III actually created a Latin Monetary Union, which included Belgium, Italy, and Switzerland. Napoleon saw the scheme as a potential basis for a single world currency.
但这并不是最老旧的法国欧洲观。19世纪中叶，拿破仑三世实际上建立了一个拉丁货币联盟，它包括比利时、意大利和瑞士。拿破仑把这视为单一世界货币的潜在基础。