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What is a livre?

What is a livre? Here are some definitions.

Noun
  1. (historical) A unit of currency formerly used in France, divided into 20 sols or sous.
  2. (historical) An ancient French unit of weight, equal to about 1 avoirdupois pound.
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The livre was the old French monetary unit which was displaced by the franc.
Does the French word livre mean a book, a unit of weight or currency, or a conjugated form of the verb livrer?
Vollard's ambition in creating the first modern livre de peintre was thus to integrate the poet's powerfully evocative text and the painter's sensual, spontaneous, and allusive lithographs.
Finalement, il n'y a pas dans ce livre de veritable theorisation de l'Etat en Haiti.
Formerly the estates of blet and Brosses paid 810 livres for the two vingtimes and the two sous per livre.
The earliest silver coin issued in France was the livre, which appeared in 800, of the value of eighty cents.

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