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may 1, 1789 - french money crisis

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The Revolution did not help. It was in this dire economic context that the assignat was created. In 1789, the French King Louis XVI convened the Estates-General with a view to finding a way out of the crisis. ... The assignats were similar to bonds issued by the Treasury.

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may 1, 1789
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~ 236 years ago

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