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How to use livre in a sentence

Looking for sentences and phrases with the word livre? Here are some examples.

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Does the French word livre mean a book, a unit of weight or currency, or a conjugated form of the verb livrer?
The Parlement allowed the municipal receiver to collect six deniers for each livre, a particularly high fee, so that he would consent to these practices.
Moreover, the names of the artist and author appeared in letters of the same size in the frontispiece, demonstrating, in the tradition of the French livre d'artiste, that one should no longer dominate the other.
France introduced the franc in 1795 to replace the livre tournois, abolished during the French Revolution.
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.
Der Rifter vom Turn is a translation of Le Livre du Chevalier de la Tour Landry pour l'enseignewent de ses filles.
Examples from Classical Literature
But not now of entire words, as in the rime riche of the French, where livre rhymes with livre.
Formerly the estates of blet and Brosses paid 810 livres for the two vingtimes and the two sous per livre.
The livre was the old French monetary unit which was displaced by the franc.
The earliest silver coin issued in France was the livre, which appeared in 800, of the value of eighty cents.
The livre of order-money is considered worth fifty per cent.
He also wrote a livre de perspective, and a livre de portraiture.
From the poor Duke of Savoy not a livre tournois was to be expected.
Charlemagne's livre was a Troyes1 pound of silver of definite fineness.
How can a poor devil of a labourer have half a livre to give away?
It is, though in a different sense from Montaigne's, a livre de bonne foi.
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