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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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But not now of entire words, as in the rime riche of the French, where livre rhymes with livre.
Finalement, il n'y a pas dans ce livre de veritable theorisation de l'Etat en Haiti.
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?
It is, though in a different sense from Montaigne's, a livre de bonne foi.
How can a poor devil of a labourer have half a livre to give away?

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