But, after all, does not this Assignat business speak volumes for modern science?

The term assignat is similar to the Russian word assignatsia which means "banknote".

They came hither on a trumped-up matter of an assignat to institute an inquiry.

To-morrow we will resume the matter of the assignat."

"How does this concern the assignat ?"

"You definitely refuse this assignat?"

"Do you, miserable federalist that you are, dare to apply such terms to an assignat of the French Republic?

There went with her a certain Lamarche, 'Director of Assignat printing;' whose dejection she endeavoured to cheer.

"By my faith, Captain," he exclaimed, "I had been better advised had I taken that assignat."

He then takes a trip with Alexander in which he mocks pagan rites and tries to pay for sacred writings with a 19th-century assignat.

Quick, Sieur Guillaume, Clerk of the Directoire, bring me a new Assignat!

"This, citizen Bonchatel," he announced with great firmness, "is a matter that we may pass on to discuss after we have settled the question of the assignat."

Assignat was the type of a monetary instrument used during the time of the French Revolution, and the French Revolutionary Wars.

But we do need to cast off the Klondike mentality which sees electronic operations as the key to a great financial boom, just as the assignat was expected to be.

He opted for the meeting of the three orders, called for the abolition of torture in the judicial procedure and requested the emission of 800 million assignat.

Drouet scans the new Assignat; compares the Paper-money Picture with the Gross-Head in round hat there: by Day and Night!

We heard of your refusal yesterday to accept an assignat, and mistrusting our informant--for how believe one whom was accounted a true patriot capable of so vile a conduct?

The majority were hostile to the French regime, above all because of the imposition of the assignat, wholesale conscription, and the ferocious antireligious policies of the French revolutionaries.

Like the assignat in revolutionary France, which marked the introduction of credit money, electronic money has brought new forms of fraud and new ways for governments to circumvent budgetary restrictions.

"Answer me, citizen: did you an hour ago refuse to accept, in payment for the loaf which he came here to purchase, the assignat tendered you by a citizen of the French Republic?"

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.

Like a pack of famished wolves the Committee of Public Safety of Rousillon fell upon the fare provided, with never another thought for the business of the Republic and the rejected assignat which had been the cause of their coming.

Misliking his looks, Bonchatel asked to see his money, whereupon, with a curse upon all aristo-bakers who did not know a patriot and a true man when they saw one, the fellow produced a soiled and greasy assignat for twenty francs, out of which he bade him take payment.

Pochart and Danou did not care one worthless assignat what became of the daughter, but they did feel that the pleasure of threatening and terrorising the representative on special mission, perhaps even of dragging him down from his exalted position and sending him in his turn to the guillotine, was not one to be missed.