The one franc coin (minted only in 1803 because a shortage of bullion in the 1790s) retained the same weight in silver until World War I. 'Heavy' franc The revolutionary franc was also France's first ...

I had been doing a lot of walking that day and had consumed a great deal of water. Needless to say, nature had taken its course and I needed to go to the gents'. The woman outside the toilets ...

The coins were collected by Paul Narce, who lived in a small village in south-west France until his death in 2024, according to Beaussant Lefèvre and Associates.

A bunch of almost weightless and worthless aluminum two and five old French Franc coins recalled the time, circa 1971, that we left a tower of them as a tip at a café in Aix-en-Provence.