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What is the difference between sou and livre?

sou | livre |

As nouns the difference between sou and livre

is that sou is an old french copper coin while livre is {{context|historical|lang=en}} a unit of currency formerly used in france, divided into 20 sols or sous.

sou

English

Noun

(en noun)
  • An old French copper coin.
  • (dated, slang) Cent; pocket money.

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    livre

    English

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • (historical) A unit of currency formerly used in France, divided into 20 sols or sous.
  • * 1992 , (Hilary Mantel), A Place of Greater Safety , Harper Perennial 2007, p. 115:
    • They like to see them awarded comfortable pensions. Is it 700,000 livres a year to the Polignac family?
  • * 2002 , , The Great Nation , Penguin 2003, p. 30:
    • He never, it should be noted, totally renounced his inheritance: a critic of the court round, he benefited to the tune of a cool two million livres a year from royal largesse [...].

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