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The livre was the currency of New France, the French colony in modern-day Canada. It was subdivided into 20 sols , each of 12 deniers . The New France livre was a French colonial currency, distinguished by the use of paper money.
A twelve-livre card from Canada, New France, c. 1735The growth of French colonization, which began about the middle of the seventeenth century, was accompanied by continual difficulty in finding sufficient currency for the needs of settlers, merchants and government establishments.
The livre was established by Charlemagne as a unit of account equal to one pound of silver. [citation needed] It was subdivided into 20 sous (also sols), each of 12 deniers.[citation needed] The word livre came from the Latin word libra, a Roman unit of weight and still the name of a pound in modern French, and the denier comes from the Roman denarius.
The livre was the currency of various French colonies until the early 19th century. It was subdivided into 20 sous , each of 12 deniers . It was mostly issued in paper money form and was generally linked to the French livre at the rate of 1 + 1 ⁄ 2 colonial livres = 1 French livre.
The currency caught on, and values equal to 100 livres are recorded. Eventually, an estimated two million livres in card money is thought to have circulated. [2] By the end of the decade New France faced counterfeiting problems with this currency, although counterfeiters could be caned, branded, banished, flogged, or even hanged.
The franc (/ f r æ ŋ k /; French: franc français, [fʁɑ̃ fʁɑ̃sɛ]; sign: F or Fr), [n 2] also commonly distinguished as the French franc (FF), was a currency of France.Between 1360 and 1641, it was the name of coins worth 1 livre tournois and it remained in common parlance as a term for this amount of money.
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The local name of the currency is used in this list, with the adjectival form of the country or region. ... New France livre – New France; Luxembourgish livre ...