livre

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A French money of account, afterward a silver coin equal to 20 sous. It is not now in use, having been superseded by the franc.

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James McCalla, Twentieth-century Chamber Music: Routledge Studies in Musical Genres, Routledge, 2003, p.48 French Baroque composer Michel Pignolet de Montéclair composed "Pan et Syrinx", a cantata for voice & ensemble (No. 4 of Second livre de cantates). Source: Internet

The Things They Carried won France's prestigious Prix du Meilleur Livre Etranger and the Chicago Tribune Heartland Prize; it was also a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize and the National Book Critics Circle Award. Source: Internet

During this period, the livre main and the sou main were counting units; only the denier main was a coin of the realm. Source: Internet

French livre seeAlso Since the Middle Ages, various pounds (livre) have been used in France. Source: Internet

In Europe older recipes frequently refer to pounds (e.g. Pfund in German, pond in Dutch, livre in French). Source: Internet

It was equivalent to one livre tournois (Tours pound). Source: Internet

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