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Livre tournois
La Banque Royale: 100 livres Tournois (1720)
Unit
Unit
livre
Symbol
₶
Denominations
Subunit
1⁄20
sous sol until 1714
1⁄240
denier
Demographics
User(s)
France
This infobox shows the latest status before this currency was rendered obsolete.
The livre tournois (French pronunciation:[livʁtuʁnwa]; lit.'Tours pound'; abbreviation: ₶.) was one of numerous currencies used in medieval France, and a unit of account (i.e., a monetary unit used in accounting) used in Early Modern France.
The 1262 monetary reform 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 numbers from 1360.
In 1549, the livre tournois was decreed a unit of account, and in 1667 it officially replaced the livre parisis.
In 1720, the livre tournois was redefined as 0.31 grams of pure gold, and in 1726, in a devaluation under Louis XV, as 4.50516 grams of fine silver.
It was the basis of the revolutionary French franc of 1795, defined as 4.5 grams of fine silver exactly.
established the livretournois as 20 sous tournois, or 80.88 grams of fine silver. The franc à cheval was a gold coin of one livretournois minted in large...
official use of the livretournois accounting unit in all contracts in France was legislated in 1549. However, in 1577, the livretournois accounting unit...
the LivreTournois 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...
up livre in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Livre may refer to: French livre, one of a number of obsolete units of currency of France Livretournois, one...
the Battle of Poitiers four years earlier. It was equivalent to one livretournois (Tours pound). The French franc was originally a gold coin issued in...
currency of the Capetian dynasty before being generally replaced by the livretournois ("Tours pound") under Philip II in the 13th century. Louis IX ceased...
the 20th century. The Carolingian system is the origin of the French livretournois (predecessor of the franc), the Italian lira, and the pound unit of...
August 1830 • July Monarchy deposed 24 February 1848 Currency Livre, Livre parisis, Livretournois, Denier, Sol/Sou, Franc, Écu, Louis d'or ISO 3166 code FR...
examples of units of measure include the livretournois, used in France from 1302 to 1794 whether or not livre coins were minted. In the 14th century Naples...
Guadeloupe livre – Guadeloupe Jersey livre – Jersey Lebanese livre – Lebanon French livre parisis – France French livretournois – France Haitian livre – Haiti...
In 1427 a Mark (244.752 g) of silver was worth 8 livretournois or 6.4 livre parisis Hence one livre weighed 38.24 g and one sol at 1.912 g. Compare with...
(1993–2008) ₷ Spesmilo (1907 – First World War) in the Esperanto movement ₶ Livretournois (13th century – 1795) 𐆚 As coin used during the Roman Empire and Roman...
Carolingians, with the Capetians making the kingdom's currency the Livretournois. Saint Martin and Gregory of Tours were from Tours. Tours was once part...
recuperation began. Figures cited in the following section are given in livretournois, the standard "money of account" used in the period. Comparisons with...
return from captivity from 5 December 1360, and featured combative imagery. Gold, 24 karat, 3.73g. Its weight is the account value of one livretournois....
called the Jersey Old Bank) and issued £1 notes. Due to the shortage of livretournois coinage, individuals and companies issued a large number of low value...
subdivisions of the kopek. France introduced the franc in 1795 to replace the livretournois, abolished during the French Revolution. France introduced decimalisation...
the 13th century, the livretournois, the pound of the city of Tours, was used in France. This was identical to the "earlier" livre de Troyes in use at...
Great Britain 10 February 1763 Area 8,000,000 km2 (3,100,000 sq mi) Currency Livretournois Today part of Canada United States Saint Pierre and Miquelon...
set in the 1620s, that one hundred pistoles were worth a thousand livrestournois when Athos bargains for the horse he takes to the battle of La Rochelle...
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