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Le Florain

Local Currency·active·France

Le Florain is the local currency of Nancy and the south of Meurthe-et-Moselle in France. One florain equals one euro. People swap euros for paper notes or a digital balance and spend them with local shops, growers, restaurants and cinemas. The euros collected sit in a reserve fund at the ethical bank La Nef, and La Nef commits to lending twice that amount to projects in the same area. Every exchange also sends 1% of the sum to a local association chosen by the buyer, at no extra cost. An association of volunteers has run it since October 2017.

2.8
Weakly aligned
Monetary Sovereignty
2.9
Civilizational Durability
2.7
Universal Adoption
3.0
Rated 5d ago
M69 Verdict

A well-run French local currency with clean, debt-free, two-way issuance and eight years of unbroken parity. The euro peg sets the ceiling: the unit of account is borrowed, the reserve is held entirely in euros, and one association holds both the reserve and the digital ledger. Traction is genuine but small, with 220 businesses against roughly 300 published users.

M69 Score

M69 Alignment2.8
Weakly aligned
1.02.03.04.05.0
12345Iss Mod 3xStability 2xFia Ind & Int 2xTraction 2xSovereigntyGovernanceResilienceInclusivity
Monetary Sovereignty2.9
Issuance (3x) + Stability (2x) + Fiat Indep. (2x)
Civilizational Durability2.7
Sovereignty + Governance + Resilience
Universal Adoption3.0
Traction (2x) + Inclusivity
Iss Mod3x
4.0
Stability2x
3.0
Fia Ind & Int2x
1.0
Traction2x
3.0
Sovereignty
2.0
Governance
3.0
Resilience
3.0
Inclusivity
3.0

Scored against the Money2069 Manifestosee methodology. Higher = more aligned.

Detailed Rating Breakdown

Issuance Model3x
4.0

IM-01 3, IM-02 5, IM-03 3, IM-04 5, IM-05 5 (avg 4.2). Nothing is borrowed into existence: a florain exists because a euro was handed over at a counter, and it disappears when a professional reconverts. Supply is fully elastic in both directions, and the contraction leg gets used: about 730,000 of the million florains ever issued have been reconverted. IM-01 is held to 3 because one association is the only issuer, even though the rule it follows is mechanical and open to any member.

Spending Power Stability2x
3.0

SPS-01 3, SPS-02 3, SPS-03 3, SPS-04 5, SPS-05 3, SPS-06 2 (weighted 3.3). The 1:1 rule has held without deviation since October 2017, which is what earns SPS-04 5. The benchmark is the euro and nothing else, and the mechanism is a full euro reserve rather than any index, so nothing above 3 is available on SPS-01 or SPS-02. SPS-06 is 2 because the stability only exists for people inside one French department.

Fiat Independence & Interoperability2x
1.0

FI-01 1, FI-02 1, FI-03 2, FI-04 1, FI-05 1, FI-06 2, FI-07 1, FI-08 2 (weighted 1.3). This is the honest arithmetic for a currency that is a euro by definition, holds euros as its entire reserve at La Nef, and needs that bank account to honour reconversion. A euro failure has a direct transmission path into every florain balance. FI-08 gets 2 rather than 1 only because the association joined the national Mouvement SOL network in 2021.

Traction2x
3.0

TR-01 5, TR-02 4, TR-03 1, TR-04 3, TR-05 2, TR-06 4, TR-07 4, TR-08 3, TR-09 4, TR-10 4, TR-11 4 (weighted 3.0). Real and growing: 220 partner businesses, the City of Nancy signing a convention in August 2025, and 258 accepting shops mapped in OpenStreetMap with 38 of them edited in 2026. The brake is TR-03 at 1, because the only published user figure is 'a little over 300', and TR-05 at 2, because every price in the network is still a euro price.

Sovereignty
2.0

SO-01 2, SO-02 2, SO-03 2, SO-04 3, SO-05 4, SO-06 3, SO-07 2, SO-08 3, SO-09 1 (weighted 2.2). One French association holds the reserve, the digital ledger and the power to close the system. SO-04 is 3 rather than lower because the paper notes are bearer instruments that need no operator. SO-09 is 1: the rules live in the statutes, and nothing in the technology stops the association changing them.

Governance
3.0

GO-01 4, GO-02 4, GO-03 3, GO-04 4, GO-05 3, GO-06 2, GO-07 3, GO-08 3 (weighted 3.2). A six-person steering committee is chosen by election without candidates, one member one vote, with published statutes, a charter of values and open working groups. What is missing is any separation between monetary and operational decisions: the general assembly can change the parity rule the same way it changes anything else.

Resilience
3.0

RE-01 3, RE-02 2, RE-03 3, RE-04 5, RE-05 4, RE-06 3, RE-07 3, RE-08 4, RE-09 1 (weighted 2.8). The design is simple enough to explain on one page and the paper leg keeps working with no power or network, which is what carries RE-04 and RE-08. RE-07 is 3 because the association runs on membership dues, grants and about twenty volunteers with two part-time paid staff. RE-09 is 1: joining requires a human membership and a vetting committee.

Inclusivity
3.0

IN-01 2, IN-02 3, IN-03 3, IN-04 5, IN-05 4, IN-06 3, IN-07 4 (weighted 3.4). IN-04 is the standout at 5: the association takes no seigniorage, 1% of every exchange is donated to a local association, and the reserve makes La Nef lend twice its value back into the same territory. IN-01 is 2 by the plain wording of the band, because the currency is restricted to one geography by design.