FRENCH REVOLUTION
FRANCE UNDER NAPOLEON
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Question
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Only peasants and the clergy paid taxes
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Only about 2 percent of the nobility paid any taxes
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The nobility paid taxes only on land, not on income.
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The members of the Third Estate paid almost all of the taxes
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Detailed explanation-1: -Which of the following is an accurate description of the tax system in France in the years preceding the French Revolution? Only peasants and the clergy paid taxes.
Detailed explanation-2: -The tax system in pre-revolutionary France largely exempted the nobles and the clergy from taxes. The tax burden therefore devolved to the peasants, wage-earners, and the professional and business classes, also known as the Third Estate.
Detailed explanation-3: -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-4: -The French administration had taxes like Tithes (giving one-tenth of the agricultural produce to the Church) and Taille (tax to the State). They also levied taxes on salt and tobacco.
Detailed explanation-5: -All members of the third estate had to pay taxes to the state. These included a direct tax, called taille, and a number of indirect taxes which were levied on articles of everyday consumption like salt or tobacco.