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100 Livres Tournois
| Issuer | Intendance Générale des Colonies |
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| Year | 1788 |
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| Currency | Livre Tournois (1721-1810) |
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| Obverse description | Plain typeset note printed in black on cream handmade paper, enclosed within a decorative chain-link border. The heading ISLES DE FRANCE ET DE BOURBON appears in spaced small capitals at top, followed by the text body in mixed Roman and italic letterpress setting authorizing the note under the Royal Edict of 10 June 1788. The denomination CENT LIVRES is set in bold reverse type within a solid black panel at centre, with the printed signatures of De Vaivre, Intendant général des Colonies, and Le Brasseur, Intendant général des fonds de la Marine et des Colonies, appearing in the lower left and right corners respectively. |
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| Signature(s) | De Vaivre and Le Brasseur |
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The Intendance Générale des Colonies issued this note for circulation in the French Caribbean colonies — most likely Saint-Domingue — at a moment when colonial finances were chronically strained and metropolitan credit increasingly unreliable. The livres tournois denomination itself was already an anachronism by 1788; France would abandon it entirely with the Revolutionary monetary reforms just a few years later, making this one of the final emissions in that unit.
De Vaivre served as Intendant of Saint-Domingue from the mid-1780s; his signature here places the note firmly within that administration's attempt to manage a paper money supply that colonists and merchants regarded with justified skepticism.