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Definition of Tournois

Tournois
Tournois Tour`nois", n. [F., belonging to Tours in France.] A former French money of account worth 20 sous, or a franc. It was thus called in distinction from the Paris livre, which contained 25 sous.

Meaning of Tournois from wikipedia

- established the livre tournois as 20 sous tournois, or 80.88 grams of fine silver. The franc à cheval was a gold coin of one livre tournois minted in large...
- Tournois was raised to 15 deniers Tournois or 12 deniers (1 sol) Parisis, thus commencing the fixed parity of 4 deniers Parisis to 5 deniers Tournois...
- official use of the livre tournois accounting unit in all contracts in France was legislated in 1549. However, in 1577, the livre tournois accounting unit was...
- In optics, a Gires–Tournois etalon (also known as Gires–Tournois interferometer) is a transparent plate with two reflecting surfaces, one of which has...
- (in French). Villa Medici. Retrieved 2009-07-02. Wikimedia Commons has media related to Joseph Tournois. (in French) Works by Tournois, on Base Joconde...
- Middle Ages and the early modern era. It took its name from the denier tournois, the denier of Tours. Marco Polo referred to the tornesel in recounts of...
- Le Livre des tournois (Traicte de la Forme de Devis d'un Tournoi) or King René's Tournament Book is a treatise describing rules for tournaments by the...
- The Tournoi de France (French, 'Tournament of France') was a friendly international football tournament organised by the French Football Federation (FFF)...
- The Tournament (French: Le Tournoi) is a 2015 French drama film written and directed by Élodie Namer and starring Michelangelo P****aniti and Lou de Laâge...
- The 1997 Tournoi de France ([tuʁnwa də fʁɑ̃s]; French, 'Tournament of France'), often referred to as Le Tournoi, was an international football tournament...