Two gentlemen gambling over a game of dames (draughts) at the Cafe Procope, St. Germain-des-Pres, Paris, 1791. The loser tries to pay with a cheque (assignats), but the winner demands cash (numeraire). L'homme aux assignats et l'homme au numeraire. Handcoloured steel engraving by Leopold Massard after an illustration by Henri Baron from Augustin Challamel and Wilhelm Tenint’s Les Francais sous la Revolution, The French under the Revolution, Challamel, Paris, 1843.

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