MAKING OF A NEW NATION 1776 1800
THE FRENCH REVOLUTION
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Taille
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Bourgeoisie
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Quartering Act
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Land Act of 1789
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Detailed explanation-1: -taille, the most important direct tax of the pre-Revolutionary monarchy in France. Its unequal distribution, with clergy and nobles exempt, made it one of the hated institutions of the ancien régime. The taille originated in the early Middle Ages as an arbitrary exaction from peasants.
Detailed explanation-2: -The taille (French pronunciation: [taj]) was a direct land tax on the French peasantry and non-nobles in Ancien Régime France. The tax was imposed on each household and was based on how much land it held, and was directly paid to the state.
Detailed explanation-3: -In the decades leading to the French Revolution, peasants paid a land tax to the state (the taille) and a 5% property tax (the vingtième; see below).