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Example sentences for: francs

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In 1877, France bought back Saint-Barthélemy from Sweden for 320,000 gold francs (Louis XVI having ceded the little island 93 years earlier to his friend King Gustav III in return for duty-free trading rights in Gothenburg).
Le Figaro of Paris led its front page Wednesday with an estimate that the storm will cost the French economy between 60 billion and 70 billion French francs, about 3 percent of the state budget.
Atta had a stopover in Zurich, where he bought two Swiss Army knives and withdrew 1,700 Swiss francs from his SunTrust bank account.
And yet, despite the flocks of familiar French automobiles with yellow headlights, the francs and centimes, the gendarmes, cafés, and just-like-Paris little shops, you’ll sense immediately that this is not, nor could it ever be, metropolitan France.
In Naples, there is a sporting goods store called Snoopy's Dribbling , while just off the Grand Place in Brussels you can find a boutique called Big Nuts , where a sign in the window intriguingly offers, “Sweat, 690 francs.”