There were all kinds of gold coins in the bag-big French gold coins, Spanish doubloons and pieces of eight.

那一个袋里各国钱币都有：法国的金路易，西班牙的杜布龙金币和每枚8个里亚尔的银币。

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The generously proportioned rooms envelop one of the great surviving privately formed collections of 18th-century French art, furniture and gold boxes.

宽敞的房间里封藏着幸存下来的珍贵的18世纪法国艺术收藏品，家具和金盒子。

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The four-times French Open champion is now setting his sights on gold at next month's Beijing Olympics.

眼下，这位法网四连冠得主又将目光瞄准了将于下月开幕的北京奥运会的金牌。

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He said the president ate French food from gold and silver dishes.

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William Christie and Les Arts Florissants, the gold standard in French baroque opera, brought Marc-Antoine Charpentier's "David et Jonathas" (1688) to the Brooklyn Academy of Music last weekend.

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Germany ordered its gold returned which the French full filled the obligation but the US said it will take 7 years and England has delayed.

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Because when asked, central bankers will repeatedly cite the diversifying power of gold as a major reason to own it. (See this French central banker speaking in 2000, for instance.) Unlike other metals and commodities, gold is not tied to the economic cycle, nor the stock market.

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