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Definition of Assignat
1. 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.
Definition of Assignat
1. Noun. (historical) A banknote used during the French Revolution, on the security of state land. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Assignat
1. one of the notes issued as currency by the French revolutionary government [n -S]
Literary usage of Assignat
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Catalogue of the Historical Library of Andrew Dickson White, First President by Andrew Dickson White, George Lincoln Burr (1894)
"assignat de 300 livres. Creation of 16 and 17 April 1790. No. 10490. ...
assignat de 200 livres. Creation of 19 June and 12 Sept. 1791. No. 42124. ..."
2. Modern European History by Charles Downer Hazen (1917)
"In 1789 an assignat of 100 francs was accepted for 100 francs in coin. But by
1791 it had sunk from par to 82, and by 1796 to less than a franc. ..."
3. The Money and the Finances of the French Revolution of 1789: Assignats and by Stephen Devalson Dillaye (1877)
"This repeal laid bare the fate of the assignat, and yet the assignat was the ...
THE FINAL CAUSE of the overthrow of the assignat may easily be traced to ..."
4. A History of Modern Europe by Merrick Whitcomb (1903)
"... but as the Revolution 239. de^lix^sous, assignat AN assignat. progressed the
increasing need of money for public purposes, and the fatal ease ..."
5. Modern Europe by Charles Downer Hazen (1920)
"... of France and represented immense wealth, amply sufficient, it was believed,
to set the public finances right. AN assignat Redrawn from a photograph. ..."
6. European History: An Outline of Its Development by George Burton Adams (1899)
"FACSIMILE OF AN assignat (REDUCED) Stephens, French Revolution, I. 297-303.
Civil constitution of the clergy. Penn. I., No. 5. " The land secures the notes. ..."
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