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Example sentences for: franc

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The travails of the French franc in the '20s were thoroughly modern, and the speculative attacks that brought down the Bretton Woods system of exchange rates in the early '70s were almost as big, compared with the size of the economies involved, as the biggest recent blowouts.
Thus, Belgium, Switzerland, and Luxembourg use franc ; Canada and The Bahamas choose dollar .
Some of them felt strongly enough about their situation to form a pressure group and now, after a long struggle, the government has caved in: a recent Journal officiel lists four pages of people who are to be allowed to change their names--when they can come up with the 2000 franc (±$325) fee.
The only thing I do remember is a conversation over dinner ( canard aux olives ) with an adviser to the new government, who explained its plan to stimulate the economy with public spending while raising wages and maintaining a strong franc.
The names franc and guilder spread only to their former colonial areas.