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[ Louis Blanc calls attention to this very fact in showing the superiority of the French assignats to the old American Continental currency, See his "Histoire de la Révolution française," tome xii, p. 98.]
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[ See Sumner, as above, p. 220.]
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[ See Levasseur, as above, vol. i, p. 178.]
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[ See Cambon's "Report," Aug. 15, 1793, pp. 49-60; also, "Decree of Aug. 24, 1793," sec. 31, chapters XCVI-CIII. Also, "Tableaux de la dépréciation de papier monnaie dans le department de la Seine.">[
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[ For the example of Metz and other authorities, see Levasseur, as above, vol. i, p. 180.]