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Examples
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With the sum of eighty louis, which is all that is subscribed for my professorship, I cannot continue them on any large scale.
Louis Agassiz His Life and Correspondence Agassiz, Louis 1885
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With the sum of eighty louis, which is all that is subscribed for my professorship, I cannot continue them on any large scale.
Louis Agassiz: His Life and Correspondence Louis Agassiz 1840
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The Curé would follow the Queen as she collected this small tax for her poor people, a levy which often totaled as much as much as one hundred 'louis' and never less than fifty.
Almsgiving of Louis XVI and Marie-Antoinette elena maria vidal 2009
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The Curé would follow the Queen as she collected this small tax for her poor people, a levy which often totaled as much as much as one hundred 'louis' and never less than fifty.
Archive 2009-03-01 elena maria vidal 2009
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Champagne, borrowed the money to pay his expenses, while his stinted household is kept up only by means of a louis which is given to him weekly by his father-in-law, who is a coffee-house keeper.
The French Revolution - Volume 1 Hippolyte Taine 1860
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Throughout the South and the East individuals in easy circumstances purchase this commission of beggar for a "louis," or for ten crowns, and, putting three livres in a cup, go about presenting it in this or that parish: [5263] ten of the inhabitants of a small mountain village and five inhabitants in the little village of Treignac obtain their discharge in this fashion.
The Ancient Regime Hippolyte Taine 1860
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-- "What! they have not re-coined louis: I am surprised at this.
Memoirs of the Private Life, Return, and Reign of Napoleon in 1815, Vol. I Pierre Alexandre ��douard Fleury de Chaboulon 1807
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Keep it pretty similar, but this time the celebs (ie cowel, cole, 'louis' and who ever is in the 4th slot) would have to make their cases to a 'jury' of 9. (randomly selected members whot get to sack who ever they like.
Army Rumour Service 2009
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Keep it pretty similar, but this time the celebs (ie cowel, cole, 'louis' and who ever is in the 4th slot) would have to make their cases to a 'jury' of 9. (randomly selected members whot get to sack who ever they like.
Army Rumour Service 2009
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Keep it pretty similar, but this time the celebs (ie cowel, cole, 'louis' and who ever is in the 4th slot) would have to make their cases to a 'jury' of 9. (randomly selected members whot get to sack who ever they like.
Army Rumour Service 2009
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