As a first step in dealing with the financial crisis the church land was nationalised.The national assembly had three reasons in selling the church land:
1. To create a source of income for the period before the new and fairer taxation system was introduced.
2. To guarantee the success of the revoloution since those who bought church land would have vested interests in maintaining the revoloution or they would have lost there money if the anicen regime would be recovered as there church would de-nationalise their land.
3. It was hoped it would gain the support of the clergy because they would be dependent on it for their new salaries.
The goverment would issue bonds known as assignats, which the public could buy and use for the purchase of church lands.
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