"He was proprietor of three stalls, in which meat was weekly sold to the amount of 200 livres parisis (the livre being equivalent to 24 francs at least), with an average profit of ten to fifteen per cent.

Having procured a few six-livre pieces, we were enabled to purchase a small supply of corn, though by no means enough for our consumption, so that we are obliged to oeconomise very rigidly.

Le livre des betes qu'on appelle sauvages.

I was eager to see those like myself, with 600 livres income.

The "livre des naissances" showed fifty-six births between 1833 and 1859 distributed among twenty-three women, two of whom were still in their teens when the record ended.

Ne te livre point; parois sérieux et rêveur, et même mécontent: entends-tu? ARLEQUIN.

Quel livre avez-vous?

Por amor le counte Guillaume, Le plus vaillant de cest royaume, Mentremis de cest livre faire, Et de l'Anglois en Romans traire, &c. M. le Grand, in his preface to some of Mary's fables, which he has published in French prose, informs us that this person was Earl William de Dampierre.

there were several livres galants with plates somewhat lubriques, the discovery of which excited blushes on her part and considerable laughter on the part of the byestanders.