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...

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...

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

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

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...

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...

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...

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...

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

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

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

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

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...

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...

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

the identity of a valet "Mr. Durand", from his portrait printed on an assignat in his possession, but did not take action immediately. The carriage left...

counter-revolution and conspiracy, waving a hundred thousand livres in assignat notes, claiming that a band of royalist plotters gave it to him to buy...

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

Count Mirabeau in the Constituante, when he did not agree with using assignats as legal tender. He resigned on 4 September 1790. Accompanied by their...

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

place of the former provinces of France. December 19: Introduction of the assignat, a form of currency based not on silver, but on the value of the property...

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

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