Before the Euro was introduced in Europe, the French currency was measured in Francs.
The French currency before 2002 was the French franc. Since then it is the Euro.
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The money that the EU (European Union) uses is called the euro, and it was created to make trade easier between its countries, by making money conversion unnecesary.
Before euros, the french curerency was called Francs. Between 1360 and 1641, it was the name of the coins worth 1 livre tournois and it remained in common parlance as a term for this amount of money. It was re-introduced in decimal form in 1795 and remained the national currency until the introduction of the euro in 1999 (for accounting purposes) and in 2002 (coins and banknotes). It was a commonly held national reserve currency in the 19th and 20th centuries.
French money used to be called the franc. The franc was the currency of France before it was replaced by the euro in 2002. The franc was subdivided into centimes.
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Before the Euro was introduced in Europe, the French currency was measured in Francs.
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The french unit is Euros
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The French currency before the euro was the french frank.
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France adopted Euro as its currency in 1999. Before adopting Euro the French currency was French Francs. Euro is adopted by 18 of 28 member countries of European union.
the French currency before the Euro was the franc (officially the 'French Franc', symbol FF). The subdivision was the 'centime' and was of trifle value. The French Franc were phased out throughout the year 2001 and replaced by the Euro. The exchange rate was 6.55957 FF for one Euro.
Before the Euro, France used the Franc.