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The E-Sylum: Volume 19, Number 26, June 26, 2016, Article 33

FEATURED WEB PAGE: CARD MONEY IN NEW FRANCE

This week's Featured Web Page is the text of a speech by Martin Masse on card money in New France.

The French were constantly at war with the Iroquois. In 1684, new soldiers had arrived from France for another campaign against them. However, in the fall of that year, the annual appropriations failed to arrive. The intendant of the colony, Jacques de Meulles, had no funds to pay colonial officials and troops. (The intendant was what could be called the top bureaucrat in the colony, second only to the governor who represented the king.)

In June 1685, he decided to issue his own credit notes. Because good paper was rare, he collected the playing cards in the colony and, with his seal and signature, issued them in various denominations as paper money. By an ordinance, the cards became legal tender and merchants had to accept them.

Playing Card Money

www.quebecoislibre.org/06/060319-2.htm



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