They see that Voltaire made big bucks, big francs, big livre writing.

他们看到伏泰妙笔生财。

" To save you the pain of selling them, I will advance the money—in livres" .

“为了省去卖掉它们痛苦，我会预付钱——”。

The French livre contained, in the time of Charlemagne, a pound, Troyes weight, of silver of a known fineness.

在查理曼大帝时代，法国有磅特鲁瓦重量已知纯度银。

I'll give you in return six thousand francs in livres, and you are to put them just where I tell you.

作为回报，我给你六千法郎，你要把它们放在我告诉你地方。

The word livres on the littoral of the Loire signifies that crown prices of six livres are to be accepted as six francs without deduction.

卢瓦河沿岸 livres 词表示 6 皇冠价格将被接受为 6 法郎，无需扣除。

Well, for 7,000 livres, he wasn't even going to hint at the other Lavoisier, the one who made money collecting taxes with the help of a private army.

好吧，为了7000，他没在画透露点点拉瓦锡面。那位化学家可是靠支私人军队来为他征税敛财。

In 1407, Nicolas Flamel caused to be built on the vaults of Saint-Jacques de la Boucherie, a chamber which cost him four livres six sous, sixteen farthings, parisis.

1407 年， Nicolas Flamel 在 Saint-Jacques de la Boucherie 拱顶上建造了个房间， 耗资四六苏， 十六法令，巴黎。

But this additional tax is levied only upon the district under-charged, and it is applied altogether to the relief of that overcharged, which consequently pays only nine hundred livres.

但这种附加税只对征税不足地区征收， 而且它完全适用于多征税款减免， 因此多征税款只支付九百。

In order to remedy this inconveniency, government has found no better expedient, than to impose upon the whole generality an additional tax of a hundred and twenty thousand livres.

为了补救这种不便， 政府找到了最好权宜之计， 而不是向全体人民征收十二万附加税。

Two districts, for example, one of which ought, in the actual state of things, to be taxed at nine hundred, the other at eleven hundred livres, are, by the old assessment, both taxed at a thousand livres.

例如，有两个区，其中个在实际情况下应缴纳九百，个区应缴纳千，而按照旧评估，这两个区都被征税千。

In 1767, the farm of tobacco was let for twenty-two millions five hundred and forty-one thousand two hundred and seventy-eight livres a-year; that of salt for thirty-six millions four hundred and ninety-two thousand four hundred and four livres.

1767 年，烟草农场租金为每年 2254.1278 ；盐价格为三千六百四十九万二千四百零四。

The coinage, therefore, increases the value of a mark of standard gold bullion, by the difference between six hundred and seventy-one livres ten deniers and seven hundred and twenty livres, or by forty-eight livres nineteen sous and two deniers.

因此，铸币使标准金条马克价值增加了​​ 671 10 旦和 720 之间差值，或 48 19 苏和 2 旦之间差额。