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  • Item, five genovines, or five hundred-franc pieces of Genoa; another very rare coin worth eighty-seven francs on exchange, but a hundred francs to collectors.

    Eug�nie Grandet 2007

  • He jumped into a taxi, gave the driver a hundred-franc note, and told him it was an emergency.

    Day of the Dandelion Peter Pringle 2007

  • When he offered a hundred-franc note, the proprietor waved it aside.

    Maigret in Holland Simenon, Georges, 1903- 1993

  • There were bundles of hundred-franc bills, three of them, and one of the bundles was crisp and new.

    Maigret and the Saturday Caller Simenon, Georges, 1903- 1991

  • “You never forgave her, did you, for palming you off with a hundred-franc note when you went to her for help because you were pregnant?”

    Maigret and the Madwoman—Simenon, Georges - 100 Simenon, Georges 1970

  • “When I told her I was pregnant, the best she could do for me was to hand me a hundred-franc note.”

    Maigret and the Madwoman—Simenon, Georges - 100 Simenon, Georges 1970

  • A fifty - or a hundred-franc note every now and then when Rose is looking the other way, that I can manage.

    Maigret and the Pickpocket Simenon, Georges, 1903-1989 1967

  • Finally he pulled a worn wallet from his pocket and took several hundred-franc notes from it.

    Maigret and the Pickpocket Simenon, Georges, 1903-1989 1967

  • And her eyes were fixed on the hundred-franc note Maigret was taking out of his wallet; she gave a sign as though regretting not having trailed after Monsieur Clément all day Saturday.

    Maigret Stonewalled Simenon, Georges, 1903- 1963

  • CHARLES recovered hisself emediately, and, pocketing the note, winked his eye at the second second, and, giving him a hundred-franc note for hisself, wiped away the stains of the rouge and water, and returned to breakfast with his gilty parrer-mour.

    Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 101, September 12, 1891 Various

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