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The livre tournois (French pronunciation: [livʁ tuʁnwa]; lit. ' Tours pound '; abbreviation: ₶.) was one of numerous currencies used in medieval France, and a unit of account (i.e., a monetary unit used in accounting) used in Early Modern France. The 1262 monetary reform established the livre tournois as 20 sous tournois, or 80.88 grams of ...
Le Livre des tournois (Traicte de la Forme de Devis d'un Tournoi) or King René's Tournament Book is a treatise describing rules for tournaments by the French prince René d'Anjou. It is best known from what appears to be Rene's own illuminated copy from the 1460s, now in the Bibliothèque Nationale , Paris (MS Fr. 2695) with illustrations, or ...
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The official use of the livre tournois accounting unit in all contracts in France was legislated in 1549. However, in 1577, the livre tournois accounting unit was officially abolished and replaced by the écu , which was at that time the major French gold coin in actual circulation.
Le Livre des tournois or King René's Tournament Book is a treatise describing rules for tournaments by the French prince René d'Anjou. It is best known from what appears to be Rene's own illuminated copy from the 1460s, now in the Bibliothèque Nationale, Paris with illustrations, or at least the drawings before colouring, attributed to ...
La livre tournois [2] (parfois écrit « livre Tournois », abrégé L, liv., lt, ₶, ou £ [1]) est une ancienne monnaie de compte française valant 240 deniers ou 20 sous, frappée originellement à Tours et utilisée en France sous l'Ancien régime.
livre tournois. French coin. Learn about this topic in these articles: subdivision. In franc. …the new unit of exchange—the livre tournois, a gold coin subdivided into 20 sols. In 1795, to symbolize the political changes that followed the French Revolution, the republican government introduced a new franc currency.
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