Re: OT: the euro & 01.01.02 (was NATLANG/FONT:)

> Date:         Sat, 22 Dec 2001 03:13:26 -0800
> From: Anton Sherwood <bronto@...>
>
> Christophe Grandsire wrote:
> > 30 years ago France got a similar revaluation: a Franc became 100 times
>
> When I was in Paris 31 years ago, the "franc leger" was already
> forgotten, as far as I could tell.  It was 5 francs (lourds) to the
> dollar.
When I had first-year French in a Danish school (1976) the authors of
the textbook still thought they needed to have an example of someone
quoting the rent for a flat in old Francs. (Something like soixante
mille, i.e., FRF 600 per month).

Lars Mathiesen (U of Copenhagen CS Dep) <thorinn@...> (Humour NOT marked)

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