Assignat

Word ASSIGNAT
Character 8
Hyphenation as si gnat
Pronunciations N/A

Definitions and meanings of "Assignat"

What do we mean by assignat?

Any of the notes issued as paper currency in France (1789–1796) by the revolutionary government and secured by confiscated lands. noun

One of the notes forming the paper currency issued in France during the revolution from 1789 to 1796. noun

In French law, the assignment of an annuity on an estate, by which the annuity is based on the security of the latter: now little used. noun

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. noun

A banknote used during the French Revolution, on the security of state land. noun

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The word "assignat" in example sentences

Causam huius assignat Cardanus, quod hydromel vetustate transeat in vinum. ❋ Unknown (2003)

While still a few steps from the officer she unfolded the kerchief and took out of it a white twenty-five-ruble assignat and hastily handed it to him. ❋ Unknown (2003)

Ipse autem assignat vbi maneant duces: millenarij centenarijs. ❋ Unknown (2003)

I now possessed nothing in the world but an assignat of five hundred francs. ❋ Various (N/A)

It is painful to relate, that this powerful writer, and good man, who narrowly escaped the guillotine, expired in a garret, in extreme poverty, at the age of eighty-four; the only property he left being one assignat of fifty livres, worth not threepence in ready money. ❋ Samuel Felton (N/A)

Napoleon had nothing remaining, but an assignat of one hundred sous, his pay being in arrear. ❋ Various (N/A)

You would scarcely imagine that this copper is deemed worthy to be hoarded; yet such is the people's aversion from the paper, and such their mistrust of the government, that not an housewife will part with one of these pieces while she has an assignat in her possession; and those who are rich enough to keep a few livres by them, amass and bury this copper treasure with the utmost solicitude and secresy. ❋ An English Lady (N/A)

The people who receive what they earn in a currency they hold in contempt, are more anxious to spend than to save; and those who formerly hoarded six liards or twelve sols pieces with great care, would think it folly to hoard an assignat, whatever its nominal value. ❋ An English Lady (N/A)

The public accepted them atthe outset, but they multiplied so under the Directory and the Convention, which issued 45,000,000,000 francs in this form (£1,800,000,000 sterling), that an assignat of 100 livres was finally worth only a few halfpence. ❋ Unknown (1913)

When the peasant first brings his corn to market, the magistrate in the towns obliges him to take the assignat at par; when he goes to the shop with his money, he finds it seven per cent. the worse for crossing the way. ❋ Unknown (1909)

The assignat in this first form was an {97} inchoate mortgage bond. ❋ Unknown (1893)

He was the strongest advocate of the assignat measures, and whatever interest his friends took in them, it need not be doubted that he believed them salutary and wise. ❋ Unknown (1893)

A new form of assignat had been tried, but without much success. ❋ Unknown (1893)

July 1791 they were at 87; during 1792-93, years of the greatest crisis, they fell fast; in 1795 they had almost lost value and during the Directoire period the assignat becomes almost worthless, one recorded transaction giving 3,080 francs in paper for 20 in gold. ❋ Unknown (1893)

Before it occurred to the artist to take the sheet of paper out of her hands, she folded it carefully with her coarse red fingers into a tiny square, slipped it over her heart between her stays and her shift, handed the painter an _assignat_ for five livres, and wishing the company a very good day, hobbled light-heartedly to the door and so out of the room. ❋ Anatole France (1884)

For their services they received an assignat of a hundred _sols_ from the funds of the Section; but, having been neighbours and friends of the outlaw, they found it embarrassing to meet his eye. ❋ Anatole France (1884)

With one accord porter and carpenter designated Brotteaux's lodging, the only quarrel now between them being who should have the assignat for a hundred _sols_ promised the informer. ❋ Anatole France (1884)

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