Quite national

The concept of quite national appeared at the time of the French revolution. It was a question for the revolutionary capacity of confiscating the real goods belonging to the Clergé or thereafter with the noble deposed ones in order to reinflate the cases of the State.

Chronology

November 2nd 1789: By a decree of the constituent Assembly, the goods of the Church are placed at the disposal of the Nation except for the goods being used with teaching or the departments of health.
December 19th 1789: Creation of the Assignat guaranteed on the “ national goods ”.
May 14th 1790: Decree on the setting on sale of the goods of the clergy.
August 15th 1790: Claude-Pierre Dellay d' Agier, appointed of the nobility of the province of the Dauphine , makes take a decree for the acceleration of the sale of the “ national goods ”.
March 8th 1793: Decree declaring the goods of the schools and colleges of the congregations “ national goods ”.
June 3rd 1793: The goods of the Emigrants are sold.

Compensation

By the signature of the Legal settlement with the Catholic church, the July 15th 1801, Bonaparte rejects the restitution of the sold goods, solution politically and materially inenvisageable. In compensation, rather than of a contractual repair, it is decided that France would pay the members of the secular clergy.

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