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...

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...

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...

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

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...

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...