[Collective] – INFLATION, Speeches delivered in September 1790 before the Constituent Assembly by Mirabeau, La Galissonnière, Beaumetz, du Pont de Nemours, Abbé Maury, Montesquiou, and the Bishop of Autun (Talleyrand) FOR OR AGAINST ASSIGNATS
[Collective] – INFLATION, Speeches delivered in September 1790 before the Constituent Assembly by Mirabeau, La Galissonnière, Beaumetz, du Pont de Nemours, Abbé Maury, Montesquiou, and the Bishop of Autun (Talleyrand) FOR OR AGAINST ASSIGNATS
    [Collectif]
    INFLATION, Speeches delivered in September 1790 before the Constituent Assembly by Mirabeau, La Galissonnière, Beaumetz, du Pont de Nemours, Abbé Maury, Montesquiou, and the Bishop of Autun (Talleyrand) FOR OR AGAINST ASSIGNATS
Édition :
    Paris
Date :
    1926
    in-8, br., printed on baroque laid paper, Numbered copy 5, uncut, Inscribed by "The Author-Publisher", numerous black and white engravings, (faded cover with partially sun-exposed paper), immaculate interior, VI-208 p.
    “From the very beginning of the Revolution, to escape the appalling financial distress in which France was struggling in 1789, recourse was made to assignats. In December 1789, an issue of 400 million was decided upon; in September 1790, the Constituent Assembly was presented with a proposal to issue 2 billion assignats backed by national assets. This sparked a prolonged and heated controversy. Fervent supporters of paper money, such as Mirabeau, clashed with economists like Dupont de Nemours and Abbé Maury, who pointed out the dangers of pursuing a monetary policy inevitably doomed to inflation. An ingenious publisher has had the good sense to reproduce the principal speeches delivered on this occasion in this book. Many of these passages appear strangely relevant today, and, if not from today, at least from yesterday.” On inflation and its perils, on the relationship between exchange rates and the various manifestations of national activity, on wealth transfers and the social upheavals caused by monetary crises, on the influence of foreign creditors, and on many other issues, this book, by bringing to light so many forgotten pages, offers a lesson in financial economics that can still be useful today. Each text is preceded by a short but substantial note about its author, and the book is attractively presented from a typographical point of view.

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Mots-clés : Banking and Stock Exchange, French Revolution, Constituent Assembly, Mirabeau

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