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10 Sous
| Issuer | Armée Catholique et Royale |
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| Year | 1794 |
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| Shape | Rectangular |
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| Obverse description | Plain cream paper note with a simple letterpress-printed text layout enclosed within a single-rule border. The heading reads DE PAR LE ROI at the top, with the denomination Dix sous inscribed vertically along each lateral margin. The central text block states the note is a bon commercable de DIX sous pour objets fournis à l'armée, remboursable à la paix, with Série A noted at lower left, a manuscript signature across the centre, and the issuer's name Armée Catholique et Royale at the foot, the whole design ornamented with small fleur-de-lis vignettes at the corners and margins. |
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| Obverse lettering | DE PAR LE ROI BON commercable, de DIX sous, pour objets fournis à l'armée, remboursable à la paix. Série A Armée Catholique et Royale. |
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The Armée Catholique et Royale — the Vendéan counter-revolutionary forces — issued these emergency notes during the catastrophic crossing of the Loire in late 1793 and the brutal winter campaign that followed. This was not a functioning monetary system. It was a desperate measure by an insurgent army that controlled no mint, no treasury, and no stable territory, issuing paper backed by nothing more than the promise of a Bourbon restoration that never came.
The 1794 dating places this note in the army's final phase, by which point the main Vendéan forces had been shattered at Savenay. Survivors who held these notes had nothing to redeem them against.