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15 Sous
| Issuer | Armée Catholique et Royale |
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| Year | 1794 |
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| Reference(s) | P#94B |
| Obverse description | Plain typeset bon commercial note with a simple letterpress-printed rectangular border. The central text reads 'BON commercable, de QUINZE sous, Pour objets fournis à l'armée, remboursable à la paix,' arranged in several lines across the face. In the lower portion, 'Série A' appears to the left alongside three fleurs-de-lis vignettes, with the manuscript signature of Stofflet to the right, and the issuer inscription 'Armée Catholique et Royale' along the bottom margin beneath the heading 'DE PAR LE ROI' at the top. |
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| Signature(s) | Stofflet |
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Issued by the Armée Catholique et Royale — the insurgent Vendéen forces fighting the French Republic — this is one of the rarest categories of revolutionary-period paper: counter-revolutionary emergency currency. The Vendée uprising produced its own financial apparatus out of necessity, and these notes, signed by Jean-Nicolas Stofflet, one of the four principal Vendéen generals, circulated within rebel-held territory in the Loire-Anjou region during the insurrection's most brutal phase.
Stofflet was himself executed by firing squad in February 1796, which gives his signature here a particular documentary weight. Notes bearing his hand are scarcer than those of other Vendéen commanders.