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59 examples of Livres in a sentence

They asked a thousand livres for him.
Grimaud had a stout, short Picard cob, which cost three hundred livres.
A half hour afterward, d’Artagnan returned with the two thousand livres, and without having met with any accident.
"Eight hundred livres."
What he had clearly gained in all this was the diamond, worth five or six thousand livres, which he wore on his finger; and even this diamond--supposing that d’Artagnan, in his projects of ambition, wished to keep it, to make it someday a pledge for the gratitude of the queen--had not in the meanwhile, since he could not part with it, more value than the gravel he trod under his feet.
The next day, M. Dessessart’s valet came to d’Artagnan’s lodging, and gave him a bag containing seven thousand livres.
"How much in that little bag?""Seven thousand livres, in louis of twelve francs."
"Seven thousand livres!" cried Porthos.
"That poor little diamond was worth seven thousand livres?""It appears so," said Athos, "since here they are.
"In that case," said Athos, "Planchet must receive seven hundred livres for going, and seven hundred livres for coming back; and Bazin, three hundred livres for going, and three hundred livres for returning--that will reduce the sum to five thousand livres.
We will each take a thousand livres to be employed as seems good, and we will leave a fund of a thousand livres under the guardianship of Monsieur Abbe here, for extraordinary occasions or common wants.
Then, calling Planchet, he said, "Now, my lad, you may claim your seven hundred livres, but you did not run much risk with such a note as that."
Coquenard; the coffer so much coveted contained eight hundred thousand livres.
Was it a vague presentiment of the three hundred and seventy livres, sixteen sous, eight farthings, which the future King Charles VII. was to cut off from the provostship in the following year?
A hundred livres parisian, fine to the king!
It appears that they had formerly been Saracens, which was why they believed in Jupiter, and claimed ten livres of Tournay from all archbishops, bishops, and mitred abbots with croziers.
"You know, Monsieur Jehan, that our fief of Tirecbappe, putting the direct taxes and the rents of the nine and twenty houses in a block, yields only nine and thirty livres, eleven sous, six deniers, Parisian.
"Fifty sols for the robes of our valets, and twelve livres for the mantles of the clerks of our crown!
Two chaplains at ten livres a month each, and, a chapel clerk at one hundred sols!
Two scullions at eight livres!
A groom of the stables and his two aids at four and twenty livres a month!
And the farrier six score livres!
And the master of the chamber of our funds, twelve hundred livres!
"Three hundred and seventeen livres, five sols, seven deniers," repeated Louis XI.
"How much doth your roof cost?""Why a roof of copper, embellished and gilt, two thousand livres at the most."
Le marquis, qui avait plus de deux cent mille livres de rente, n’en dépensait pas le quart ; il vivait d’espérances.
– J’ai 400 000 francs, ajoutait-il, ce qui nous fera toujours 15 000 livres de rente.
Nous avons quinze mille livres de rente, indépendamment des bienfaits du prince qui dureront plus ou moins.
Pour savoir de quoi l’on est coupable, il faut interroger son curé, ou lire la liste des péchés, telle qu’elle se trouve imprimée dans les livres intitulés :Préparation au sacrement de la Pénitence.
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