If any man should beat another meantime, or do him any mischief, or take any of his goods, he was to be excommunicated, and amerced nine livres to the bishop.
A further indemnity of 1000 livres was the result.
The plaintiff pretends that 1200 livres are due to her because she was bitten by the ass of the defendant.
My losses at Play have not been very considerable since I have been here, they amount to seven Livres lost one night at Picquet.
What airs I give myself in despising twenty thousand Livres a-year, who a year ago looked upon 800 as the summit of my wishes.
Besides being a sensible man an agreable companion, & the worthiest creature in the world He has a very pretty wife, a hundred thousand Livres a year and one of the best tables in Paris.
The lease was to be for a term of five years beginning with the first day of May following, and the lessee was to pay the Sieur de Freneuse 600 livres annually, half in money and half in small furs, such as beaver, otter and martins.
His advice seems to have been followed, and for some years an annual appropriation of 4,000 livres was made to provide presents for the savages, the distribution being left to the missionaries.
That minister, accustomed to calculate open-handedly, put in an estimate of five hundred thousand livres a year.
Your superintendence is left with you, and there are four or five hundred thousand livres lying idle; for you will not be able to sell the superintendence of a household, and of a council, which are in a tomb at Saint Denis!
When she got back to her own country and the news of her safe arrival was confirmed, the King sent her twenty thousand livres as a dowry, which enabled her to make a marriage suitable to her good-natured disposition and blameless conduct.
Meanwhile," said the King, "take him this draft of six thousand livres from me, nor shall this be the limit of my esteem and affection.
Lauzun, and to assure him, by contract, fifty thousandlivres of income.
His Majesty adopted a middle course, and assigned a revenue of three hundred thousand livres to his Royal House of Saint Cyr.
I attach an annuity of sixty thousand livres to this noble institution, hoping that this will make up the deficiency, if there be any.
Colbert who sent by order the twenty thousand livres to the President.
He sold the coins to the King, and informed us that his various excavations and researches had brought him in about one hundred thousand livres up to the present time.
Captain Jones has had of us near a hundred thousand livres for such purposes [necessaries].
As for the Prince de Conde, he appears to have been less acute, no doubt because his vision was dazzled by the prospect of a hundred thousand livres a year.
Thus he intended also, no doubt, to make it clear to Conde that he did not receive a pension of a hundred thousand livres a year for nothing.
Conde, who thinks of nothing but hunting, shall have a hundred thousand livres a year with which to amuse himself.
Benevent and l'Estrie; subsequently these were resigned to a general fund for the increase of small livings, from which a yearly income of 8000 livres was allowed instead for the colonial bishopric.
The king gives him lodging, provisions, servants, and all he wants, besides two hundred livres a year.
The rent paid by each tenant is considerable; but they who have many inhabitants on their estates enjoy a tolerably handsome revenue, each person paying in money, grain, or other produce, from five to twelve livres per annum.
The French chief acquired little honor by this impotent demonstration; not a prisoner rewarded his efforts, nor did he obtain a single scalp, although the deserters affirmed that he had offered 1000 livres for one such horrible trophy.
This expressly excludes the idea that the million livres in question were intended to be applied to the payment in advance of the account of Beaumarchais.
Armed now with what it chose to consider as proof that Beaumarchais wilfully had appropriated to himself a million livres intended by the French Government for it, Congress refused all settlement.
I send you, Madame, a bill of 200 livres for your unfortunate pupil.
Fifty thousand livres were distributed among the chiefs of those who influenced the Invalides to give up the arms.
I dispensed two hundred and twenty thousand livres merely to discover the names of the agents who had been employed to carry on this nefarious plot to exasperate the people against the throne by starvation imputed to the Sovereign.
I did so, and was fortunate enough to gain over to my personal entreaties one who had the courage to propose the business; and a hundred and fifty thousand livres procured them a suspension of accusation.
Then let the attempt be renewed, and back it with the argument of a cheque for a hundred thousand livres on M.
Two livres is the fare, but you shall not pay anything.
In the faubourgs of Paris, where the women became furies, two hundred thousand livres were distributed ere the horror could be completely exposed.
Well, then, let me tell you that you haven't ten thousand livres a year; not ten thousand.
He has offered me the place of organist at Versailles if I choose to accept it: the salary is 2000 livres a year, but I must live six months at Versailles and the remaining six in Paris, or where I please.
This unaccountable and marvellous woman was so pleased with the lad that she left him a legacy of two thousand livres "to buy books with.
In 1721 his father died, leaving him an income of about four thousand livres a year, and this was further increased by a pension of two thousand livres a year from the Regent in recognition of his ability as a dramatic writer.
At the same time the income of the cure will be raised to 1,200 livres a year and a house; and the clergy must have the first claim on the national revenue, and be paid in advance.
I speak throughout the work of livres (=francs) unless I state otherwise.
At the elections to replace them everyone who paid ten livres in taxes was entitled to vote.
And the Crown offered a bounty of thirteen livres per head for every negro, to be paid in "pieces of India.
Deduct one-third from any sum to find the sum in livres tournois.
The bounty of thirteen livres was computed in France upon the wholesale value of the trinkets and notions which were used in trade with Africa.
In addition to this, the owners paid thirty livres for each slave caught in the canes or roads, forty-five for each captured beyond the mornes, and sixty for those who escaped to more distant places.
This, with its burden of pikes and caps of Liberty, was bought by the Jacobin customers at forty-eight livres a gross.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "livres" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
