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Something was heard in England of the terrible conversion of 'rentes' scandal of last year, and there is reason to suppose that the administration of Algeria by the persons who surround the brother of the President of the Republic, its Governor-General (Albert Grévy), constitutes a standing disgrace to France.
The Life of the Rt. Hon. Sir Charles W. Dilke, Volume 1 Stephen Lucius Gwynn 1907
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The people are to be occupied: public works are ordered; but the public works raise the tax rates upon the people; thereupon the taxes are reduced by an attack upon the national bond-holders through the conversion of the five per cent "rentes" [#9 The name of the French national bonds.] into four-and-halves.
Eighteenth Brumaire of Louis Bonaparte Karl Marx 1850
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For this he paid an annual homage to the seigneur of “1 sol in ‘cens,’ 3 live capons and 9 silver livres in ‘rentes,’ and 9 days of work on the seigneurie.”
Bird Cloud Annie Proulx 2011
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For this he paid an annual homage to the seigneur of “1 sol in ‘cens,’ 3 live capons and 9 silver livres in ‘rentes,’ and 9 days of work on the seigneurie.”
Bird Cloud Annie Proulx 2011
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For this he paid an annual homage to the seigneur of “1 sol in ‘cens,’ 3 live capons and 9 silver livres in ‘rentes,’ and 9 days of work on the seigneurie.”
Bird Cloud Annie Proulx 2011
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For this he paid an annual homage to the seigneur of “1 sol in ‘cens,’ 3 live capons and 9 silver livres in ‘rentes,’ and 9 days of work on the seigneurie.”
Bird Cloud Annie Proulx 2011
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Ce Prester Jehan et l'empereur de Perce et les autre roys tenoient en tel despit les Tartarins que, quant il leur aportoient leur rentes, il ne les vouloient recevoir devant eulz, ains leur tournoient les dos.
Archive 2008-06-01 2008
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Ce Prester Jehan et l'empereur de Perce et les autre roys tenoient en tel despit les Tartarins que, quant il leur aportoient leur rentes, il ne les vouloient recevoir devant eulz, ains leur tournoient les dos.
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I have five hundred thousand livres of rentes in Picardy.
Roundabout Papers 2006
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I would have sold my rentes; she should have had some of the principal, and I would have bought a life-annuity with the rest.
Father Goriot 2003
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