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

他们看到伏尔泰妙笔生财。

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

“为了省去卖掉它们的痛苦，我会预付钱——里弗尔”。

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，法国里弗含有一磅特鲁瓦重量的已知纯度的银。

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.

卢瓦尔河沿岸的 livres 一词表示 6 里弗的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里弗，他没在画里透露一点点拉瓦锡的另一面。那位化学家可是靠一支私人军队来为他征税敛财的。

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 的拱顶上建造了一个房间， 耗资四里弗六苏， 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的地区征收， 而且它完全适用于多征税款的减免， 因此多征税款只支付九百里弗。

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， 政府找到了最好的权宜之计， 而不是向全体人民征收十二万里弗的附加税。

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，其中一个在实际情况下应缴纳九百里弗，另一个区应缴纳一千里弗，而按照旧的评估，这两个区都被征税一千里弗。

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，烟草农场的租金为每年 2254.1278 里弗；盐的价格为三千六百四十九万二千四百零四里弗。