Talk:French franc

message: Corrected the mention that the author of Le Petit Prince's name was mispelt on the 100FF note.  It was merely irregularly spelt ```` Derek Northcutt  — Preceding unsigned comment added by 75.166.215.135 (talk) 19:04, 3 June 2013 (UTC)
replies: text: Add *Support or *Oppose followed by an optional one sentence explanation, then sign your vote with ~~~~
*Support. The standard way of displaying currency names. – AxSkov (T) 08:50, 28 July 2005 (UTC)
replies: text: An adminstrator has to make the move if the redirect has a history of more than one edit. Philip Baird Shearer 02:34, 29 July 2005 (UTC)
replies: text: Ah, I see. Thank you. ナイトスタリオン…ㇳ–ㇰ 08:48, 29 July 2005 (UTC)
thread_title: Requested move

message: This article has very few pictures compared to the articles on many other European currencies. Can I request that someone either add some pictures or set up a French coins and French banknotes articles to link to?Dove1950 22:33, 29 November 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: Pictures

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thread_title: Fair use rationale for Image:France 03.gif

message: *"The outbreak of World War I caused France to leave the gold standard of the LMU. The war severely undermined the franc's strength, as war expenditure, inflation and postwar reconstruction, financed partly through the printing of ever more money, reduced the franc's purchasing power by 70% from 1915 to 1920 and a further 43% from 1922 to 1926. After a brief return to the gold standard (1928 to 1936) the currency was allowed to resume its slide, until it was worth in 1959 less than a fortieth of its 1934 value."
This paragraph is unclear.  Did the return to the gold standard cause a revaluation of the franc? If so, by how much? How does its 1934 value compare with its 1915, 1922, 1928 or 1936 value? Scolaire 15:07, 29 October 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: World War I

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thread_title: Fair use rationale for Image:Jcoeur 50f.jpg

message: any one know what 
4 francs 
2 dines 
3 quarters of a doller and
10 centines
are in english curreny if so please right next to forigin currency  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 86.160.38.139 (talk) 12:34, 3 April 2008 (UTC)
replies: text: Are you for real?  Scolaire (talk) 00:30, 4 April 2008 (UTC)

text: You would pay more for the transaction than you would get!  Scolaire (talk) 21:44, 5 April 2008 (UTC)

text: English money? Are you planning a trip to pre-1707? --86.111.162.127 (talk) 01:22, 11 September 2008 (UTC)
thread_title: a question

message: The translation of the Latin into English (Johannes gratia dei, etc.) was rendered in English, except for the name of the monarch, which was in French: "Jean." Either translate the Latin to English or to French, or to another language, but don't jumble them together. "Johannes" may be "Jean" in French, but it is "john" in English. Since the remainder of the quotation is in English, so should the name be. I have changed it. Altgeld (talk) 19:59, 13 March 2010 (UTC)
thread_title:  Translation 

message: Does anybody have a figure for converting francs to US$ in 1911? If so, can you add it to the purse numbers here & here? If there's a template, use it? And if there is, will you also ping my talk with it? Thx.  TREKphiler any time you're ready, Uhura  03:36 & 03:37, 26 January 2011 (UTC)
replies: text: Here is a table sheet for exchange rate from 1866 to 1914 (source:J.M. Jeanneney/Bourse de Paris) :
Unit    	Pure Silver in g	Rate in FFr	Exchange Rate 	Comment
1 Fr    	4.175           	           	              	1 Fr = 5 g x 0.835
1 US $  	24.057          	5.762      	5.183         	-10% tax
1 Mark  	4.995           	1.196      	1.25          	inc. trade bonus
1 GB £  	5.231           	1/ = 1.253 	1£ = 25.221 Fr	
1 Rouble	17.995          	4.31       	3.88          	-10% tax
1 Gulden	9.45            	2.263      	2.25          	
These equivalences provided by the Banque de France, it must be noted, are in New Francs (in 1960 two zeroes were lopped off the old francs.  So, for example, in 1914 $US 1 would have been 576.2 FF, or the equivalent of 5.762 post-1960 French Francs. ```` Northcutt
-- Spiessens 17:24, 11 April 2012 (UTC)
thread_title:  The moneychanger 

message: Is there any way of getting a table of historical exchange rates for the French Franc on here? I'm trying to find out what the Franc/Pound exchange rate would have been in 1954.  Can anyone suggest where i could look for this information? Thanks. Kaleeyed (talk) 11:24, 2 September 2011 (UTC)
replies: text: I've just Googled "historical exchange rates" and found a site that goes back to 1953, [I'm trying the same thing, but for 1940 !] Is that any (belated) help?
RASAM (talk) 15:52, 4 March 2016 (UTC)
thread_title:  Historical exchange rates 

message: found items which have not been incorporated but might help content
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*: --User:Ceyockey (talk to me) 19:57, 19 February 2012 (UTC)
thread_title:  Sources to consider for inclusion 

message: I try to do my best about french coins history... hope it will be usefull. -- Spiessens 21:02, 10 April 2012 (UTC)
thread_title:  Info completed 

message: Authors failed to mention John Law system from year 1716 - 1720. Also date when first assignats were printed is not correct. First assignats were printed a few years earlier then mentioned, namely in year 1791.  — Preceding unsigned comment added by 195.91.111.135 (talk) 13:41, 21 December 2013 (UTC)
thread_title:  Banknotes 

message: The section headed French Empire and Restoration begins by stating In 1800 the Banque de France, a federal establishment ....
In what sense was the Banque de France "federal"? France was not a federation, and this sounds like an inadvertent carry over from the U.S. Norvo (talk) 22:39, 27 June 2014 (UTC)
thread_title:  Federal establishment? 

message: Both F and Fr are obviously official abbreviations, since both appear on the currency itself as displayed in the page. Still, it would be nice to have a source for their use and an explanation if possible about different eras when each was preferred. — LlywelynII 23:07, 20 September 2015 (UTC)
thread_title: Cite needed

message: Is there a need to have the foreign exchange chart have exchanges well after the end of circulation of the French Franc? I mean having them for some of its history is fine, but most of that chart is made up of exchanges for current currencies with only like 4 or 5 years worth of Franc exchange rates, if someone would just either simplify it or use years that the Franc was available. Sion8 (talk) 23:43, 16 May 2016 (UTC)
thread_title:  Foreign exchanges well after the end of circulation of the French Franc, why? 

message: As already identified in https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Guernsey_pound the French franc was legal tender in other jurisdictions than those mentioned in the existing article.  — Preceding unsigned comment added by 87.224.106.228 (talk) 12:17, 31 August 2016 (UTC)
thread_title:  French Franc use in the Channel Islands