French franc | Wikipedia audio article
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Date: 2018-12-03

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French franc


00:00:55 1 History
00:01:04 1.1 Before the French Revolution
00:03:59 1.2 French Revolution
00:04:17 1.3 French Empire and Restoration
00:07:02 1.4 Latin Monetary Union
00:08:54 1.5 World War I
00:09:24 1.6 World War II
00:09:32 1.7 Post-War period
00:09:41 1.8 New franc
00:10:21 1.9 Economic and Monetary Union
00:11:04 2 Coins
00:11:45 2.1 Before World War I
00:11:49 2.2 World War I
00:14:00 2.3 From World War II to the currency reform
00:14:17 2.4 New franc
00:14:30 2.5 Euro exchange
00:14:39 3 Banknotes
00:17:52 4 iDe facto/i currency
00:19:17 5 See also
00:20:32 6 Notes
00:24:12 7 References
00:24:57 7.1 Citations
00:28:37 7.2 Bibliography
00:29:06 8 External links



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The franc (; French: [fʁɑ̃]; sign: F or Fr), 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. It was reintroduced (in decimal form) in 1795. It was revalued in 1960, with each new franc (NF) being worth 100 old francs. The NF designation was continued for a few years before the currency returned to being simply the franc; the French continued to reference and value items in terms of the old franc (equivalent to the new centime) until the introduction of the euro in 1999 (for accounting purposes) and 2002 (for coins and banknotes). The French franc was a commonly held international reserve currency of reference in the 19th and 20th centuries.