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  • noun Plural form of franc.

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Examples

  • Their rent amounted to 700 francs, * so that out of the 3000 francs** which the husband earned at his office, barely a couple of hundred were left them every month.

    The Three Cities Trilogy: Paris, Complete ��mile Zola 1871

  • Their rent amounted to 700 francs, * so that out of the 3000 francs** which the husband earned at his office, barely a couple of hundred were left them every month.

    The Three Cities Trilogy, Complete Lourdes, Rome and Paris ��mile Zola 1871

  • Their rent amounted to 700 francs, * so that out of the 3000 francs** which the husband earned at his office, barely a couple of hundred were left them every month.

    The Three Cities Trilogy: Paris, Volume 2 ��mile Zola 1871

  • He thence learns that France has exported 200,000 francs, and imported 352,000; from whence the honorable deputy concludes "_that she has spent, dissipated the profits of her previous savings; that she is impoverishing herself and progressing to her ruin; and that she has squandered on a foreign nation_ 152,000 _francs of her capital_."

    Sophisms of the Protectionists Fr��d��ric Bastiat 1825

  • Following the tasting, the NYWCC will serve a sure-to-be excellent lunch, where we'll pour a non-blind flight of reserve cab francs from the Finger Lakes.

    Finger Lakes Wine Events 2009

  • Following the tasting, the NYWCC will serve a sure-to-be excellent lunch, where we'll pour a non-blind flight of reserve cab francs from the Finger Lakes.

    The New York Cork Report 2009

  • Following the tasting, the NYWCC will serve a sure-to-be excellent lunch, where we'll pour a non-blind flight of reserve cab francs from the Finger Lakes.

    Evan Dawson 2009

  • Following the tasting, the NYWCC will serve a sure-to-be excellent lunch, where we'll pour a non-blind flight of reserve cab francs from the Finger Lakes.

    Finger Lakes Wine 2009

  • In 1902, a political and financial scandal rocked the French nation when it was discovered that Madame Thérèse Humbert (nee Aurignac), daughter-in-law of the deceased Minister of Justice, had swindled nearly 100 million francs from the French government and its citizens over twenty years.

    L’Affaire Humbert | Edwardian Promenade 2008

  • However, until recently, prices were shown both in French francs and euros.

    nation of hypochondriacs 2004

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