Livres in a sentence

The title required only three months' work and an initial cost of 1,200 livres; the title paid 300 livres a year and provided a number of lucrative contracts.

Led by teachers and Haiti State University students, the Livres en Main, Abrite-toi initiative offers free classes to approximately 560 children across four refugee camps in Haiti's capital.

Accordingly, the silver balustrade, which contained in excess of one ton of silver, cost in excess of 560,000 livres.

As part of the 19th-century evolution of the novel as a "democratic literary form", Balzac wrote that "les livres sont faits pour tout le monde" ("books are written for everybody").

By the 18th century, this source was becoming uneconomical due to deforestation, and the French Academy of Sciences offered a prize of 2400 livres for a method to produce alkali from sea salt ( sodium chloride ).

Each country spent one million "livres tournaises" to buy munitions.

Emerlinda Duarte, one of those women, wrote the song "Somos Livres", for a 1972 theatre play called Lisboa 72, masking a deep meaning with catchy children's music.

Few people who paid their court to Fouquet went away empty-handed, and La Fontaine soon received a pension of 1000 livres (1659), on the easy terms of a copy of verses for each quarters receipt.

However, the troupe had acquired large debts, mostly for the rent of the theatre (a court for jeu de paume ), for which they owed 2000 livres.

In 1679, Mme de Maintenon stated that the cost of providing light and food for twelve people for one day amounted to slightly more than 14 livres.

In 1752 Chardin was granted a pension of 500 livres by Louis XV.

In 1763 his services to the Académie were acknowledged with an extra 200 livres in pension.

Mémoires de Mirabeau, tome VII, p. 342. A deal was reached turning Mirabeau into one of her political allies: Marie Antoinette promised to pay him 6000 livres per month and one million if he succeeded in his mission to restore the king's authority.

Nor must the adjectives be pluralized as well the nouns in Ido the large books would be la granda libri as opposed to the French les grands livres or the Esperanto la grandaj libroj.

The chevalier Destouches left d'Alembert an annuity of 1200 livres on his death in 1726.

The city's records show that on 10 December 1517, he was fined five livres for fighting in the street with a goldsmith called Caspar, who was fined the same amount.

The interest of the debt was reduced from 52 millions to 24 millions livres.

They asked for one livre for each of them which came to 1,000 livres, a huge sum, which was paid to them quickly.

They delivered her to them for 10,000 livres.