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She sold all that she had, which produced for her two hundred francs; her little debts paid, she had only about eighty francs left.

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 Meanings and Examples of FRANCE
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France
 n.  French writer of sophisticated novels and short stories (1844-1924)
 n.  a republic in western Europe; the largest country wholly in Europe
Classic Sentence: (164 in 11 pages)
1  His sister was in receipt of a yearly income of five hundred francs, which sufficed for her personal wants at the vicarage.
Les Misérables 1 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1: CHAPTER II—M. MYRIEL BECOMES M. WELCOME
2  Myriel received from the State, in his quality of bishop, a salary of fifteen thousand francs.
Les Misérables 1 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1: CHAPTER II—M. MYRIEL BECOMES M. WELCOME
3  It will be observed that Monsieur the Bishop had reserved for himself only one thousand livres, which, added to the pension of Mademoiselle Baptistine, made fifteen hundred francs a year.
Les Misérables 1 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1: CHAPTER II—M. MYRIEL BECOMES M. WELCOME
4  On these fifteen hundred francs these two old women and the old man subsisted.
Les Misérables 1 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1: CHAPTER II—M. MYRIEL BECOMES M. WELCOME
5  They asked us two crowns of six francs each to regild them, but.
Les Misérables 1 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1: CHAPTER IX—THE BROTHER AS DEPICTED BY THE SISTER
6  One hundred and nine francs fifteen sous, which I earned in the galleys by my labor, in the course of nineteen years.
Les Misérables 1 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 2: CHAPTER III—THE HEROISM OF PASSIVE OBEDIENCE.
7  One hundred and nine francs fifteen sous.
Les Misérables 1 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 2: CHAPTER III—THE HEROISM OF PASSIVE OBEDIENCE.
8  He had calculated that his earnings, during his sojourn in the galleys, ought to amount to a hundred and seventy-one francs.
Les Misérables 1 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 2: CHAPTER IX—NEW TROUBLES
9  It is but just to add that he had forgotten to include in his calculations the forced repose of Sundays and festival days during nineteen years, which entailed a diminution of about eighty francs.
Les Misérables 1 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 2: CHAPTER IX—NEW TROUBLES
10  At all events, his hoard had been reduced by various local levies to the sum of one hundred and nine francs fifteen sous, which had been counted out to him on his departure.
Les Misérables 1 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 2: CHAPTER IX—NEW TROUBLES
11  Jean Valjean seized two more coins of five francs each with violence, and gave them to the priest.
Les Misérables 1 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 2: CHAPTER XIII—LITTLE GERVAIS
12  She sold all that she had, which produced for her two hundred francs; her little debts paid, she had only about eighty francs left.
Les Misérables 1 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 4: CHAPTER I—ONE MOTHER MEETS ANOTHER MOTHER
13  Not for less than seven francs.
Les Misérables 1 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 4: CHAPTER I—ONE MOTHER MEETS ANOTHER MOTHER
14  "And fifteen francs in addition for preliminary expenses," added the man's voice.
Les Misérables 1 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 4: CHAPTER I—ONE MOTHER MEETS ANOTHER MOTHER
15  "Total, fifty-seven francs," said Madame Thenardier.
Les Misérables 1 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 4: CHAPTER I—ONE MOTHER MEETS ANOTHER MOTHER
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