A currency certificate issued by the National Assembly in 1790. Originally meant as bonds backed by the value of seized church lands, assignats soon became an alternative form of paper currency, however excessive printing of assignats and price inflation soon rendered them almost worthless.
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Assignat was a type of a monetary instrument used during the time of the French Revolution, and the French Revolutionary Wars. == France == Assignats were paper money issued by the National Assembly in France from 1789 to 1796, during the French Revolution. The assignats were issued after the confiscation of church properties in 1790 because the g...
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• (n.) One of the notes, bills, or bonds, issued as currency by the revolutionary government of France (1790-1796), and based on the security of the lands of the church and of nobles which had been appropriated by the state.
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paper bill issued in France as currency from 1789 to 1796, during the French Revolution. A financial expedient on the part of the Revolutionary ... [2 related articles]
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During the French Revolution, a bond issued by the Constituent Assembly on the security of the confiscated landed property of the clergy. The object in issuing assignats was not only to obtain the...
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As`si`gnat' noun [ French
assignat , from Latin
assignatus , past participle of
assignare .] One of the notes, bills, or bonds, issued as currency by the revolutionary government of France (1790-1796), and based on the security of the lands of the church and of nobles which ha...
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one of the notes issued as paper currency from 1789 to 1796 by the revolutionary government on the security of confiscated lands.
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