Livre tournois
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The livre tournois was one of numerous currencies used in medieval France, and a unit of account used in Early Modern France.
La Banque Royale: 100 livres Tournois (1720)
Image: Franc à cheval 1360 73001139
Image: Charles V France franc pied 73001141
Tours
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Tours is the largest city in the region of Centre-Val de Loire, France. It is the prefecture of the department of Indre-et-Loire. The commune of Tours had 136,463 inhabitants as of 2018 while the population of the whole metropolitan area was 516,973.
Place Plumereau, Medieval buildings
Tours Cathedral: 15th-century Flamboyant Gothic west front with Renaissance pinnacles, completed 1547.
Hôtel de Ville, Place Jean Jaurès
St Gatien Cathedral, from Rue Lavoisier, just north of the Rue Colbert intersection.