But, after all, does not this Assignatbusiness speak volumes for modern science?
There went with her a certain Lamarche, 'Director of Assignat printing;' whose dejection she endeavoured to cheer.
The inscription on your assignat shows that it was issued in October or November, 1793, the second year of the French Republic.
If you examine your assignat carefully you will see to the left the dim and faded stamp of the figure of Liberty, and if you have a strong magnifying-glass, you can amuse yourself by trying to make out the lettering around it.
The assignat in this first form was an {97} inchoate mortgage bond.
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.
A new form of assignat had been tried, but without much success.
I caught the scrap of paper, and, after deciphering the words, perceived that they were written on the back of an assignat for forty sous.
I looked up, and, straight before me, saw the same officer who had given me the assignat the night before.
Until that moment I believed Darby had repossessed himself of the assignat when Crofts lay insensible on the ground; at least I remembered well that he stooped over him and appeared to take something from him.
The example of the assignats has been said not to be conclusive, because an assignat only represented land in general, but not a definite quantity of land.
For a few months an artificial improvement was effected in the value of the assignat by these ferocious measures; but in 1795, after the Terror, the system and the paper money collapsed.
In June, 1795, the quotation of the assignat oscillated violently.
By August, after violent fluctuations, the assignat had fallen to 15 per cent of its face value.
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.
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.
Now, the difference between the selling and cost price is enormous; it keeps on increasing as the assignat declines and it is the government which pays this.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "assignat" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word. Other words: bill; note; scrip
