French livre

currency of Kingdom of France and its predecessor state of West Francia from 781 to 1794

7 dated entries naming French livre, drawn from 7 separate years between 781 CE and 1733 CE. Nothing here is written by us: each line is the sentence a Wikipedia year article used, and the link beside it opens the exact revision.

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8th century

781The Frankish currency called the livre carolingienne is minted for the first time (approximate date).source

9th century

886October – Siege of Paris: Count Odo slips through Viking-controlled territory, to ask the king of West Francia Charles the Fat for support. He returns with a relief force, and reaches safety within the walls. Charles arrives later with a large army, and establishes a camp at Montmartre. After negotiations he promises the Vikings tribute (Danegeld) worth 700 Livres (equivalent to 257kg of silver), and allows them to sail up the River Seine, to over-winter in Burgundy.source

13th century

1269June 19 – King Louis IX of France ("the Saint") orders all Jews found in public without an identifying yellow badge to be fined ten livres of silver. He also confiscates goods from the Jewish population to fund the Eighth Crusade.source

15th century

1480January 3 – King Louis XI buys the succession rights to the Duchy of Brittany from the Countess Nicole de Châtillon for 50,000 livressource

17th century

1653November 30 – Jacques Dyel du Parquet completes his installment payments, totaling 41,500 French livres, to become the exclusive owner of the Caribbean islands of Martinique, Grenada, Saint Lucia and the Grenadines.source
1662October 27 – Charles II of England sells Dunkirk to France, for £400,000 (2.5 million French livres).source

18th century

1733June 15 – The Danish West India Company buys the island of Saint Croix from France for 750,000 livres.source