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assignats
- Source :
- The Columbia Encyclopedia, 6th ed.. Edition 6, 2000, p2529
- Publication Year :
- 2000
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Abstract
- assignats, paper currency issued during the French Revolution. To redeem the huge public debt and to counterbalance the growing deficit, the revolutionary constituent assembly issued (Dec., 1789) treasury notes, called […]
- Subjects :
- Paper money
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- Database :
- Gale General OneFile
- Journal :
- The Columbia Encyclopedia, 6th ed.
- Accession number :
- edsgcl.69014886