What is "francs"

Usage examples of "francs".

Really impossible for a minister who has an office, agents, spies, and fifteen hundred thousand francs for secret service money, to know what is going on at sixty leagues from the coast of France!

Arrived at Leghorn, he repaired to the house of a Jew, a dealer in precious stones, to whom he disposed of four of his smallest diamonds for five thousand francs each.

Dantes, struck with the beauty and capability of the little vessel, applied to its owner to transfer it to him, offering sixty thousand francs, upon condition that he should be allowed to take immediate possession.

Jew counted out to the shipbuilder the sum of sixty thousand francs in bright gold pieces.

I called on Fernand, who sent me a hundred francs by his valet-de-chambre.

We have a hundred thousand francs or thereabouts loaned on their securities, and we are a little uneasy at reports that have reached us that the firm is on the brink of ruin.

I am a creditor myself to the amount of ten thousand francs, to give any information as to the state of his finances.

But it must be said that if he had seen it, he attached so little importance to this scrap of paper, and so much importance to his two hundred thousand francs, that he would not have opposed whatever the Englishman might do, however irregular it might be.

In the court he found Penelon, who, with a rouleau of a hundred francs in either hand, seemed unable to make up his mind to retain them.

It was Morrel alone who remembered with alarm, that if he had to repay on the 15th the 50,000 francs of M.

Boville, and on the 30th the 32,500 francs of bills, for which, as well as the debt due to the inspector of prisons, he had time granted, he must be a ruined man.

It was said at this moment that Danglars was worth from six to eight millions of francs, and had unlimited credit.

All his funds amounted to 6,000, or 8,000 francs, his bills receivable up to the 5th to 4,000 or 5,000, which, making the best of everything, gave him 14,000 francs to meet debts amounting to 287,500 francs.

Its agent, who will in ten minutes present himself to receive the amount of a bill of 287,500 francs, I will not say granted, but offered me three months.

Count of Morcerf is too aristocratic to consent, for the paltry sum of two million francs, to a mesalliance.