established the livre tournois as 20 sous tournois, or 80.88 grams of fine silver. The franc à cheval was a gold coin of one livre tournois minted in large...

official use of the livre tournois accounting unit in all contracts in France was legislated in 1549. However, in 1577, the livre tournois accounting unit...

the Livre Tournois as France's preferred accounting system occurred during the reign of King Louis IX with the issuance of the silver Gros tournois with...

Le Livre des tournois (Traicte de la Forme de Devis d'un Tournoi) or King René's Tournament Book is a treatise describing rules for tournaments by the...

livres tournois or 60 sols. After 1726, the French écu (laubthaler) of 26+2⁄3 g fine silver was valued at 4 livres or 40 batzen (vs 6 livres tournois...

up livre in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Livre may refer to: French livre, one of a number of obsolete units of currency of France Livre tournois, one...

the Battle of Poitiers four years earlier. It was equivalent to one livre tournois (Tours pound). The French franc was originally a gold coin issued in...

currency of the Capetian dynasty before being generally replaced by the livre tournois ("Tours pound") under Philip II in the 13th century. Louis IX ceased...

the 20th century. The Carolingian system is the origin of the French livre tournois (predecessor of the franc), the Italian lira, and the pound unit of...

August 1830 • July Monarchy deposed 24 February 1848 Currency Livre, Livre parisis, Livre tournois, Denier, Sol/Sou, Franc, Écu, Louis d'or ISO 3166 code FR...

based on Roman coinage were used elsewhere; e.g., the division of the livre tournois in France and other pre-decimal currencies such as Spain, which had...

examples of units of measure include the livre tournois, used in France from 1302 to 1794 whether or not livre coins were minted. In the 14th century Naples...

silver, and was valued at one sou, that is 12 deniers or 1/20 of a livre tournois. Unlike the gold écu that was minted in small numbers, mostly for prestige...

Guadeloupe livre – Guadeloupe Jersey livre – Jersey Lebanese livre – Lebanon French livre parisis – France French livre tournois – France Haitian livre – Haiti...

(1993–2008) ₷ Spesmilo (1907 – First World War) in the Esperanto movement ₶ Livre tournois (13th century – 1795) 𐆚 As coin used during the Roman Empire and Roman...

The occasion was the first minting of the franc, equivalent to one livre tournois (twenty sous). As a guarantee for the payment of his ransom, John gave...

of the coins fluctuated according to monetary and fiscal policy (see livre tournois), but in 1726 the value was stabilized. The 1640 issue of Louis d’or...

Carolingians, with the Capetians making the kingdom's currency the Livre tournois. Saint Martin and Gregory of Tours were from Tours. Tours was once part...

Mark of silver, 11/12 fine (24.93 g fine silver), and valued at three livres tournois - the same value in which the écu d’or was stabilized in 1577. This...

recuperation began. Figures cited in the following section are given in livre tournois, the standard "money of account" used in the period. Comparisons with...

In 1427 a Mark (244.752 g) of silver was worth 8 livre tournois or 6.4 livre parisis Hence one livre weighed 38.24 g and one sol at 1.912 g. Compare with...

(2007-11-24), Proposal to encode the Livre Tournois sign in the UCS L2/08-003 Moore, Lisa (2008-02-14), "Livre Tournois Sign", UTC #114 Minutes L2/08-318...

return from captivity from 5 December 1360, and featured combative imagery. Gold, 24 karat, 3.73g. Its weight is the account value of one livre tournois....

called the Jersey Old Bank) and issued £1 notes. Due to the shortage of livre tournois coinage, individuals and companies issued a large number of low value...

subdivisions of the kopek. France introduced the franc in 1795 to replace the livre tournois, abolished during the French Revolution. France introduced decimalisation...

the 13th century, the livre tournois, the pound of the city of Tours, was used in France. This was identical to the "earlier" livre de Troyes in use at...

of Romance Flanders (Lille, Douai, Orchies) and a payment of 200,000 livre tournois. The marriage of Margaret and Philip was celebrated at the church of...

Teston d'argent, a currency used in France during the Middle Ages; see Livre tournois All pages with titles containing Teston Testoni (disambiguation) This...

Great Britain 10 February 1763 Area 8,000,000 km2 (3,100,000 sq mi) Currency Livre tournois Today part of Canada United States Saint Pierre and Miquelon...

warfare which was ended when King Philip IV of France paid Robert 20,000 livres tournois to renounce his claim to the Dauphiné. He was among the French negotiators...