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Definition of Assignats
1. assignat [n] - See also: assignat
Literary usage of Assignats
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Cambridge Modern History by Adolphus William Ward, George Walter Prothero (1907)
"Purchasers were to pay for the property in assignats, and the assignats were,
... On April 15, 1790, the rate was reduced to 8 per cent and assignats were ..."
2. The history of the French revolution, tr. with notes by F. Shoberl by Thomas Carlyle, Marie Joseph L. Adolphe Thiers (1838)
"Eight hundred millions in assignats were decreed ; and this time it was decided
that they should not bear interest. It would have been useless in fact to ..."
3. Encyclopaedia Britannica, a Dictionary of Arts, Sciences, Literature and edited by Hugh Chisholm (1910)
"assignats were so termed, as representing land assigned to the holders. ...
In this emergency assignats were issued to provide a substitute for a metallic ..."
4. The Principal Speeches of the Statesmen and Orators of the French Revolution by Henry Morse Stephens (1892)
"He was thoroughly convinced of Necker's inability to grasp thé situation, and
adopted thé views of Clavière, thé inventer of assignats, whom he tried to ..."
5. History of Europe from the Commencement of the French Revolution in M.DCC by Archibald Alison (1854)
"While the assignats were thus sweeping away the whole capital of the state, the
march of the Revolution was equally devastating and relentless in the ..."
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