Yes, but a lieutenant must have my secret, and as that secret is worth a million, and I shall only pay my man a thousand livres, fifteen hundred at the most, my man will sell the secret to Monk.
No, monseigneur; there want seven hundred and forty thousand livres.
A thousand livres of silver might be worth their nominal value one day, and be reduced one-sixth the next, but a note of Law's bank retained its original value.
At length he pressed so warmly, that madame, seeing it could not be worth more than a thousand livres, made me a sign to accept it.
Houses in it, worth, in ordinary times, a thousand livres of yearly rent, yielded as much as twelve or sixteen thousand.
The ambassador was unwilling to give more than a thousand livres, leaving me to make the journey at my own expense.
Seignelay had spent freely, but he left at his death more than four hundred thousand livres a year.
Bercy put down his name for a thousand livres," says the journal of Oliver d'Ormesson.
Racine received from him nearly fifty thousand livres; he was appointed historiographer to the king.
He knew that his words might lose him a thousand livres; nevertheless he said bravely: "Monsieur le Marquis, it is such men as yourself who make the age what it is; it is philosophy such as yours that corrupts and degenerates.
A thousand livres, a prayer mumbled in Latin, and look!
The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "thousand livres" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this group of words.
