The widow of a ruined man, she lived with her daughter on the scanty income of four or five thousand francs a year, at the rear of a courtyard in the Rue Vanneau.
You said nothing about whether the pounds when reduced back to francs and Thalers made exactly the original sum from which the pounds were calculated.
Baldwin by the most wonderful patience and diversity of exercises at five francs a lesson.
This is the usual charge all over the island, and includes the keep of both driver and horses; but half the return journey is expected to be paid, as well as a douceur of about two francs a day to the man.
From ten to twelve francs a day is the usual price at the Hotel Germania for "pension" in the season.
Here, upon taking leave of Italy, we were again cheated in real Italian style, being compelled, for instance, to pay two francs for each cup of coffee.
I gave them fortyfrancs this morning to call me out, and neither of them is here.
He has presented a diamond necklace to Schneider, he has bought a new race-horse, he has lost fifty thousand francsat rouge et noir.
This line, established by the government of Brazil to maintain communication between its central South American possessions and the large cities of the coast, receives an imperial subsidy of nine thousand francs a month.
He arose, threw ten francs on the counter, and was leaving.
But the bill is ten francs fifty," said the café-master.
Money was her daily and hourly preoccupation, and she could have kissed the hem of Elise Delaunay's dress in gratitude for these few francs thus placed in her way.
Meanwhile he enclosed the money for two weeks' pension and twenty francs for pocket money.
In former days this lively Frenchman had been a small Paris journalist, whom the coup d'etat had struck down with his betters, and who had escaped to England with one suit of clothes and eight francs in his pocket.
The piano was a small upright, a tin pan for tone, as are all Parisian pianos en location, and it was to cost me ten francs a month, with eight francs for carting.
Some, I learned, though doing leading work, still paid for their performances by taking so and so many francs worth of seats every time they sang.
The room had an open fireplace with a grille or fire-basket in it, for which I could buy boulets, coal dust pressed into egg-shaped balls, for three francs a sack.
Prices have increased considerably since those days, for at that time it was possible to get very good board and lodging on the left bank of the Seine for five francs a day.
Marbois added: "Those who knew the importance of a perfect understanding between these two countries attached more value to the twenty million francs set apart for the American claims than to the sixty offered to France.
But the government did not want him to be hampered by any lack of funds, and allotted him the then considerable sum of twelve thousand francs a month, and four thousand a month the generals under him.
Each officer had received fifty francs for extra purchases; they found it was little, but when they had made their purchases they found that it had been much, so great was the difficulty in stowing their possessions on the ship.
Monsieur le Maire, I am a poor postman; I want my place; and if my five hundred francs a year were taken from me, what would become of my wife and children?
I had earned my thirty francs in six hours; but this did not give me complete satisfaction.
These thirty francs for eight leagues had flashed upon me.
Crowds of young men left the country to join him, and then the Prussians burdened their parents with a war contribution of fifty francs a day.
He may come in for from fifteen to twenty thousand francs some day; but what are fifteen thousand francs for an ass?
Immediately, George recovered his senses; he laid a cent-sous piece on the table, the woman gave him two francs fifty centimes change, and we went out.
Then the Prussian major declared that the commune was responsible for the loss, and that it would have to pay up five hundred francs damages.
I reckoned that his own share might be fifteen to twenty thousand francs after the death of his parents.
Then I advanced, asking: "Monsieur offers twenty francsto go what distance?
The judge announced one morning that five hundred thousand francs had been placed to the consular credit in Switzerland by America for the relief of her citizens.
It took five francs to cure the broken runner, which I believe had been broken all the time and was just set there handy to catch inadvertent persons like ourselves.
Average daily cost of gasoline and oil 8 francs ( 1.
Even Swiss bank notes (there were none less than fifty francs in the beginning) were of small service, for there was no change.
Gauls, Goths, Saracens, and Francseach had their turn at it.
The price amounts were not in dollars and cents, but in francs and centimes.
Two or three francs a day was quite enough for incidental tips at churches, ruined castles, and the like, unless there should be a fee, which would naturally be reckoned outside the regular budget.
The vines were loaded with purple and topaz grapes, and I was dying to steal some, though for a few francs we had bought a basket of clusters, with other luncheon supplies, in Arles.
Pierpont Morgan is said to have offered a million francs for the Souvigny bible, a vast sum to little Moulin.
To meet the necessary expenses the dues were raised to ten francs per thousand members for each Federation of industry and to seven francs per thousand members for each Departmental Union.
In the Federation du Livre, which has the highest dues, every member pays a little over two francs a month.
Of this 3,172 francs were the five per cent of the strike subscriptions.
The young Helene faithfully handed to her sister the six francs I had given her, and she told her the way in which she had earned them.
O-Morphi fell into disgrace at the end of three years, but the king, as he sent her away, ordered her to receive a sum of four hundred thousand francs which she brought as a dowry to an officer from Britanny.
The elder sister thought I was duped, for in two months I had paid three hundred francs without having done anything, and she attributed my reserve to avarice.
I laugh because you and a crown of six francsare as like as two peas.
The prices were six francs for a breakfast with a nymph, twelve for dinner, and twice that sum to spend a whole night.
I tried to satisfy my wishes, she opposed some resistance, but a double crown of six francs made her obedient, and finding that her only fault was a complete absence of cleanliness, I began to wash her with my own hands.
They are the most expensive and cost sixty francs apiece; they will continue burning for a month.
There were four persons in the party, so this would make ten francs apiece.
Many of them were not rich, for they were recruited among all classes; however, they had contrived to secure three good meals for the daily payment of three francs apiece.
A philanthropic gentleman at Paris offered employment of various kinds, with payment at four francs a day, to all those who came to him complaining that they were dying of hunger and could get no work.
Become a shopman, earn at the most six hundred francs a year, and having sweated all my life, grow old and ill and finish at a hospital.
Russia offered him one hundred thousand francs per annum to become the educator of her son, which he declined.
Cloth which heretofore brought fifteen to eighteenfrancs a yard rose to one hundred twenty-five francs a yard.
The price for the day being three hundred francs, sixty thousand francs were sufficient to buy two hundred shares.
He agreed, in order to make this sort of wager more certain, to pay the difference of forty thousand francs in advance, and to lose the difference if he did not realize a profit from the proposed transfer.
But this was not all; the decree declared that thereafter silver should not be used in payments of over one hundred francs nor gold in those over three hundred francs.
The occasion of this eagerness is evident, since that which was obtained at the Hôtel de Nevers for five thousand francs was worth seven and eight thousand in the Rue Quincampoix.
It required fifty francs to be paid in advance, and the remaining five hundred in twenty equal monthly payments.
The necessity of using bank-notes in payment of over three hundred francs gave them a certain forced employment, but did not procure them confidence.
At this last term the shares were to be estimated at five thousand francs, and a bank-note of ten thousand francs at five thousand; one of a thousand at five hundred, etc.
In case the payments should not be fully made, the fifty francs paid in advance were forfeited by the subscriber.
In that case, monsieur, the four hundred and fifty shirts, of good quality, will cost seven francs apiece.
So saying, he opened my till, took out of it thirty-two francs that I had there, and a gold watch.
Rosette is free; she has eighty thousand francs a year absolutely at her own disposal, and some women twice as ugly as she are considered very pretty.
Even if Rosette had not been what she was, sweet and lovely, and of gentle birth, the eighty thousand francs a year would have removed every obstacle.
Rodin earned at Sevres only two or three francs an hour and lost a great deal of time on the railroad.
It was therefore necessary for him to earn his own living, and at once he bravely entered upon his work as an ornament-maker, and became a journeyman at a few francs a week.
I was quite at the beginning of my career, earning six francs a day.
I have arranged that you will receive ten thousand francs and your expenses for your services in this matter.
It was reported, I remember, when the Branford pearls were bought in Paris last year that Mrs. Branford paid upward of a millionfrancs for the collection.
If, however, you accept this commission I shall consider you in honour bound to surrender your claim upon my name for which I agree to pay you fifty thousand francs upon my marriage with the American heiress of whom you know.
Certainly--and paid fifteen thousand francs to the Armands.
They were to be offered first to madame at ten thousandfrancs each; should she refuse, they were then to be offered to M.
They decided that it was folly to keep three millions of francs imprisoned in a single gem, when their Michael Angelos and da Vincis and Murillos were encrusted with dirt and fading daily.
The duke was not a bit at a loss, though he had but a few francs to his name.
I shall simply give him six francs and get my certificate without any more ado, just as the other fellows get theirs.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "francs" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
