Assignats
1789 fiscal instrument with changing monetary terms; interest phases belong to this family.
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Evidence & research notes 7 claims
Imported assignats: monetary instrument. Dated evidence is not proof of an uninterrupted lifetime.
Chicago dates the first assignat authorization to December 1789, linking livre-denominated claims to sales of state lands.
Historical Note, opening
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Describes primary objects; notes themselves not inspected; legal chronology to verify
Chicago distinguishes April 1790 legal-tender and interest changes from September 1790 abolition of interest.
Historical Note, April and September paragraphs
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Describes primary objects; notes themselves not inspected; legal chronology to verify
Chicago inventories 100- and 1,000-franc assignats dated 18 Nivôse III, January 1795.
Box 1, folder 4
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Describes primary objects; notes themselves not inspected; legal chronology to verify
The Dewamin inventory attributes the 1796 mandat exchange to 28 Ventôse IV, at thirty assignat units per mandat unit.
PDF p. 16, 0Fi-0000240/85–88
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Catalogue paraphrases law and cites Lafaurie; not direct examination of the law
Chicago distinguishes mandats’ fixed-price land entitlement from assignat-funded land auctions.
Historical Note, final paragraph
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Describes primary objects; notes themselves not inspected; legal chronology to verify
Dewamin catalogues a fabrication-equipment destruction record dated 30 Pluviôse IV, 19 February 1796.
PDF p. 15, 0Fi-0000240/82
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Catalogue paraphrases law and cites Lafaurie; not direct examination of the law
Assignats are monetary instruments denominated in the monetary units of the period. Do not insert them as a separate universal parent currency between livre and franc.
Named short source page; relevant history/definition passage as reported in the handoff.
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Handoff acceptance is not a claim that every source was independently reread.