An assignat ([asiɲa]) was a monetary instrument, an order to pay, used during the time of the French Revolution, and the French Revolutionary Wars. Assignats...

Nemours feared the emission of assignats would double the price of bread. Since no one had truly the right to make assignats, everyone would soon begin to...

denominated in livres. These were issued until 1793, alongside assignats from 1789. Assignats were backed (in theory) by government-held land. Like the issues...

Sainte-Menehould, recognized the King, perhaps from his portrait printed on an assignat in his possession. Seven detachments of cavalry posted along the intended...

of the assignats "had plunged from 31 percent of that of the silver currency in July 1794 to 8 percent in March 1795" The main cause of assignat depreciation...

of bonds called assignats. The value of these bills or bonds was based on the estimated value of the clerical properties. The assignats were issued by...

Historia.fr. Retrieved 26 November 2023. "Assignat de 50 livres – Catalogue général des assignats français". assignat.fr. Guttner, Darius von (2015). The French...

property, the value of which was used to back a new paper currency known as assignats. In return, the state assumed responsibilities such as paying the clergy...

the paper money, the assignat, had fallen to a fraction of its value, and prices soared. The Directory stopped printing assignats and restored the value...

on the annexation of the wealthy Netherlands and the introduction of assignats. After losing the Battle of Neerwinden (1793), he deserted the Revolutionary...

exchange offices were shuttered to curb the circulation of counterfeit assignats and the outflow of capital, with investments in foreign countries punishable...

hyperinflation due, in part, to Gresham's law thanks to the over-printing of Assignat, which lowered purchasing power. Due to this, the French Directory and...

authorities of their presence after recognizing the King's face on an Assignat as Louis tried to buy something from a shop. The royal family was returned...

coins until, in 1839, the relationship was fixed at 1 silver ruble = 3+1⁄2 assignat rubles. In 1840, the State Commercial Bank issued 3, 5, 10, 25, 50 and...

internal instability, caused by hyperinflation of the paper monies ("Assignats"), and French military disasters in 1798 and 1799, the Directory lasted...

brought a fatal blow to the public fortune, preventing circulation of assignats in Belgium". Robespierre's speeches during April 1793 reflect his growing...

(Russian: Государственный ассигнационный банк), sometimes referred to as Assignat Bank,: 555  was a bank of issue in the Russian Empire, established in early...

bank were issued massively during the French Revolution, the so-called assignats which soon led to hyperinflation. In the 19th and 20th centuries, issuance...

Of those killed, 72% were non-political prisoners including forgers of assignats (galley convicts), common criminals, women, and children, while 17% were...

estimates placing the amount of scrip sold as high as 12,560 (out of 14,849). Assignat Capitol Hill Babysitting Co-op Chiemgauer Cincinnati Time Store Coal Scrip...

hostile to the French regime, above all because of the imposition of the assignat, wholesale conscription, and the ferocious antireligious policies of the...

place after the introduction of a non-convertible paper currency, the assignat. Monetarist theories hold that hyperinflation occurs when there is a continuing...

there were food shortages as a result of a hard winter in 1794–5, and the assignat currency collapsed. The harvest of 1794 was poor, particularly in the areas...

notes issued as currency by the French Directory in 1796 to replace the assignats which had become virtually worthless. They were land-warrants supposedly...

secretly proposed undermining the Revolution by printing counterfeit assignats, the paper currency the Republic depended on to finance its activities...

the appalling economic conditions caused by the fall in the value of assignats. The attempts of the Directory to deal with the economic crisis gave Babeuf...

silver coins were taken out of circulation and exchanged for printed assignats, initially issued as bonds backed by the value of the confiscated goods...

Publications. ISBN 978-1-4402-1293-2.[permanent dead link] Shishanov V. The Assignats of 1802-1803 // Journal of the Russian numismatic society. 1999. №68....

Brittany and Normandy. One such scheme was the importation of forged French Assignat notes into the country, which had the effect of causing hyperinflation...

June 1791 • Constitution adopted 3 September 1791 • Storming of the Tuileries 10 August 1792 • Republic proclaimed 21 September 1792 Currency Assignat...