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...

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

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

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...

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...

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

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

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...

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...

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

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

State for War. Playfair proposed to "fabricate one hundred millions of assignats (the French currency) and spread them in France by every means in my power...

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...

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

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

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...

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

land held by the Catholic Church and decided to sell them to fund the assignat Revolutionary currency. On 12 July 1790, the assembly passed the Civil...

estimates placing the amount of scrip sold as high as 12,560 (out of 14,849). Assignat Canadian Tire money Capitol Hill Babysitting Co-op Chiemgauer Cincinnati...

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...

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• Constitution adopted 3 September 1791 • Storming of the Tuileries 10 August 1792 • Republic proclaimed 21 September 1792 Currency Assignat ISO 3166 code FR...

the armies, also armed with unlimited powers; and enforced acceptance of assignat as the sole legal tender, price controls for grain and the forced loan...

Grand Duchy of Finland, 75 kopek assignat (1824)...

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...

Dutch currency and going forward no one could be obliged to accept French assignats. This changed the Dutch republic from a client state of Great Britain...

1848. Josif Rajačić (1785–1861), administrator of Serbian Vojvodina An assignat with the coat of arm of Serbian Vojvodina from 1848 Vojvodina Voivodeship...

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

of Montesquieu’s epistolary novel "Lettres Persanes" published in 1721. Assignat, a bank note system of the French Revolution Espinasse, Francis (1892)...