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Livres in sentence

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For many centuries, even while metallic money circulated, the task of defining units of account – livres tournois, marks, gulden, florins, or dollars – remained a task of the state (or of those with political power).
'What a difference!' the gaoler answered promptly; 'why you, M. le cure, we know that you have an income of 800 livres, a fine place in the sun ...'Such are the events which, commented upon, exaggerated in twenty different ways, had been arousing for the last two days all the evil passions of the little town of Verrieres.
You all know that forty-eight years ago I inherited a piece of land which brings me 800 livres; I shall live on that income.
This distresses me, albeit I have an income of eight hundred livres.
People were jealous of the Mayor, the Liberals had grounds for complaint against him; but after all he was noble and created to fill a superior station, whereas M. Valenod's father had not left him an income of six hundred livres.
These gentlemen enjoyed incomes of from six to eight thousand livres; four of them swore by the _Quotidienne_, and three by the _Gazette de France_.
He enjoyed in all humility an income of sixty thousand livres, and had flatterers of his own.
M. de Caylus asserted that he had been credited with the determination to propose for the hand of Mademoiselle de La Mole (to whom the Marquis de Croisenois, who was heir to a Dukedom with an income of one hundred thousand livres, was paying court).
In a weak moment: 'Here,' he said to his daughter, 'is a transfer of ten thousand livres a year in the Funds, send it to your Julien, and let him speedily make it impossible for me to reclaim it.'
I promise him an income of ten thousand livres if he consents to live abroad, beyond the frontiers of France, or better still in America.
'An astonishing thing!' he said to himself, 'I thought that by her letter to M. de La Mole she had destroyed my future happiness for all time, and, in less than a fortnight after the date of that letter, I no longer think of all that was occupying my mind ...Two or three thousand livres a year to live quietly in a mountain village like Vergy ...I was happy then ...I did not recognise my own happiness!'
He was not ignorant that such a beast was worth at least twenty livres; and the words which had accompanied the present were above all price.
Thus the dealer to whom d’Artagnan sold him for the nine livres did not conceal from the young man that he only gave that enormous sum for him on the account of the originality of his color.
He was an Irishman--one of the most skillful of his craft, and who himself confessed that he gained a hundred thousand livres a year by the Duke of Buckingham.
"Four hundred and seventy-five livres," said d’Artagnan, who reckoned like Archimedes.
With the four hundred livres we will make the half of one for one of the unmounted, and then we will give the turnings out of our pockets to d’Artagnan, who has a steady hand, and will go and play in the first gaming house we come to.
We have made our calculations with Spartan economy, and we each require fifteen hundred livres."
"Four times fifteen makes sixty--six thousand livres," said Athos.
"It seems to me," said d’Artagnan, "with a thousand livres each--I do not speak as a Spartan, but as a procurator--"This word PROCURATOR roused Porthos.
A thousand livres!
"Oh, no," said Porthos, "it does not exceed two thousand five hundred livres!
I even think that with economy I could manage it with two thousand livres."
"Good God!" cried she, "two thousand livres!
"Ah!" said Porthos, brightening, "that’s well as regards my horse; but I must have the appointments complete, as they include objects which a Musketeer alone can purchase, and which will not amount, besides, to more than three hundred livres."
"Three hundred livres?
Then put down three hundred livres," said the procurator’s wife, with a sigh.
These three hundred livres he reckoned upon putting snugly into his pocket.
Finally, the rest of the equipment was successively debated in the same manner; and the result of the sitting was that the procurator’s wife should give eight hundred livres in money, and should furnish the horse and the mule which should have the honor of carrying Porthos and Mousqueton to glory.
An idiot, who held the life of Lord de Winter in his hands and did not kill him, by which I missed three hundred thousand livres’ income."
It must have been for his hide, for, CERTES, the carcass is not worth eighteen livres.
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