On the other side see Derenbourg, Les Mots grecs dans leLivre biblique de Daniel (Melanges Graux, 1884).
A small volume, called Le Livre Rouge of the Consular Court, made its appearance about that time, and contained some articles which gave Bonaparte reason to suppose that Bourrienne was its author.
Le Commandant du Vindictive a tenu a rappeler les details de l'operation dans laquelle il a joue un role si brillant, et sonlivre constituera un precieux enseignement et donnera aux generations futures un exemple splendide.
I have desired him to give your account credit for every livre received previous to the current year, including therein the loan of ten millions of livres in Holland, though a part of it may not have been received until this year.
It has been frequently reprinted, and recently in Germany, as a livre de luxe, illustrated with admirable designs by Kaulbach.
The livre of Paris was also in use until 1667 and was worth a quarter more than the livre tournois.
The livre was the old French monetary unit which was displaced by the franc.
There was a livre Morlane as there was a livre Tournois, and it long preserved its celebrity.
It was worth triple the livre Tournois, and was subdivided into sols, ardits, and baquettes, or vaquettes, i.
Whoever is particularly fond of a dessert, let him seek it in France: for a livre he may set out a table, which in London would take him at least a Louis.
Le Livre de Melibee is likewise not an original work, but an adaptation, with some omissions and alterations, probably made by Jean de Meun, of a treatise in Latin, viz.
This prose story is merely a translation, and not always an exact one, of a French treatise entitled Le Livrede Melibee et de dame Prudence, of which there are two MS.
At the end is seen, in a large sprawling character, the following inscription: "Ce Livre est A Le Harne.
Le livre des Miracles de Chartres (translated into French verse from some Latin collection in the thirteenth century).
At the end of this work an erased inscription, when treated with chemicals, reveals Humphrey's autograph, 'Cest livre est A moy Homfrey duc de Gloucestre.
Italy by the translator, for the inscription in Gloucester's handwriting on the verso of the last folio runs, 'Cest livre est A moy Homfrey duc de Gloucestre du don P.
The last folio bears the Duke's inscription, 'Cest livre est A moy Homfrey duc de Gloucestre du don maistre Guillaum erare docteur en theologie chanoyne de Ram.
Below this again the Duke has written, 'Cest livre est A moy Homfrey duc de Gloucestre du don Reverend piere en Dieu Zanon eveque de Bayeux.
On the verso of the last folio Humphrey has written 'Cest livre est A moy Homfrey duc de Gloucestre,' and by him it was given to Oxford in 1443 (Epist.
This ends on folio 91, and on the verso stands the Duke's autograph, 'Cest livre est A moy Homfrey duc de Gloucestre lequel jay fait translater de grec en lattyn par Antoyne de Beccara Veroneys mon serviteur.
The value of the Paris livre at this date was twenty sols, so that the amount would be equivalent to about L1400.
After having stewed a week in a paltry inn, I have taken a ground floor for ten months at the rate of four hundred livres a year, that is twenty pounds sterling, for the Piedmontese livre is about an English shilling.
The livre of Piedmont consists of twenty sols, and is very near of the same value as an English shilling: ten sols, therefore, are equal to six-pence sterling.
General Paterson delivered a Plan to the King of Sardinia for supplying Nice with excellent water for so small an expence as one livre a house per annum; but the inhabitants remonstrated against it as an intolerable Imposition.
Here we entered Languedoc, and were stopped to have our baggage examined; but the searcher, being tipped with a three-livre piece, allowed it to pass.
In due time her book, Le Livredes faits et bonnes moeurs du roi Charles V.
The second of the prose works in behalf of women is the Livre des Trois Vertus, or Tresor de la Cite des Dames, a book of sage counsel to women of all classes and full of information most valuable for the historian of manners.
It is in the reign of Saint Louis that the trade guilds of Paris become so numerous that Etienne Boileau compiles a Livre des metiers, containing the statutes of the greater number of them.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "livre" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
