Sentence examples for for five francs from inspiring English sources

In 1908, perhaps to celebrate his acquittal, as well as Picasso's proud purchase of his "Portrait of a Woman" (1895) from a secondhand store — for five francs — his friends threw a party for him in Picasso's studio at the Bateau Lavoir which became legend.

Same routine: she exults over the necklace; the jeweller sells it to the lover for two hundred thousand francs.

One night her aunt shows her the shawl, and tells her she got it for ninety francs.

She pretends to fall in love with it for the first time, and the husband hands over a check for two hundred thousand francs.

Morgue longs to Jab her with her knitting needles, and M. Morgue longs to sell her to a periodical seed man for two hundred francs.

An unhappy first marriage drove him to attempt suicide, and in 1983 his daughter from his second marriage, Joséphine, was abducted and held prisoner for 55 hours before being ransomed for two million francs.

Pauline was allowed to retain the title Duchess of Guastalla, along with the subsidiary income that went with it, and the principality itself was sold for six million francs, making her extremely (and, equally important, independently) wealthy.

Robert is sleeping with Jacqueline, Bernard's wife, but Suzette, who sleeps only with her husband, George, has been persuaded (for two hundred francs, and that's just the beginning) to pose as Robert's girlfriend so that Bernard's mistress, Suzanne, can play her, and Jacqueline won't suspect a thing.

The house was a wreck, but they got it for sixty-five twelve thousand (twelve thousandollarsrs) — a princely sum at the time, though well under the asking price, as de Wolfe never tired of mentioning — and its restoration became her life's great project.

Why don't you sell Omega for four hundred million francs?'" he told the Wall Street Journal.

From the late 1970s he made a fortune by buying bankrupt companies for one franc, renegotiating their debts, laying off part of their workforce and reselling them for vast profits.