1
: an old French monetary unit equal to 20 sols
2
: a coin representing one livre
3
: the pound of Lebanon and Sudan
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The five hundred livres that Charles V eventually coughed up aside, this extraordinary venture was made possible by Ferdinand’s own fortune, which is to say by the New World holdings granted to his father, which is to say by colonial crimes of the first order—theft, slavery, genocide.
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Susan Tallman, The New York Review of Books, 30 Nov. 2023
Unfortunately, the annual bill for annuities and wages of lifetime offices came to ninety million livres.
—John Lanchester, The New Yorker, 29 July 2019
By 1715, the King had a hundred and sixty-five million livres in revenue from taxes and customs.
—John Lanchester, The New Yorker, 29 July 2019
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Susan Tallman, The New York Review of Books, 30 Nov. 2023
Unfortunately, the annual bill for annuities and wages of lifetime offices came to ninety million livres.
—John Lanchester, The New Yorker, 29 July 2019
By 1715, the King had a hundred and sixty-five million livres in revenue from taxes and customs.
—John Lanchester, The New Yorker, 29 July 2019
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“Livre.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/livre. Accessed 21 Dec. 2024.
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