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Privilege and the Politics of Taxation in Eighteenth-Century France - Liberte, Egalite, Fiscalite (Paperback, New ed)
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Privilege and the Politics of Taxation in Eighteenth-Century France - Liberte, Egalite, Fiscalite (Paperback, New ed)
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Privilege and the Politics of Taxation in Eighteenth-Century
France, first published in 2000, offers a lucid interpretation of
the Ancien Regime and the origins of the French Revolution. It
examines what was arguably the most ambitious project of the
eighteenth-century French monarchy: the attempt to impose direct
taxes on formerly tax-exempt privileged elites. Connecting the
social history of the state to the study of political culture,
Michael Kwass describes how the crown refashioned its institutions
and ideology to impose new forms of taxation on the privileged.
Drawing on impressive primary research from national and provincial
archives, Kwass demonstrates that the levy of these taxes, which
struck elites with some force, not only altered the relationship
between monarchy and social hierarchy, but also transformed
political language and attitudes in the decades before the French
Revolution. Privilege and the Politics of Taxation in
Eighteenth-Century France sheds light on French history during this
crucial period.
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