The gabelle (French pronunciation: [ɡabɛl]) was a very unpopular French salt tax that was established during the mid-14th century and lasted, with brief...
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A Tale of Two Cities (redirect from Théophile Gabelle)
Théophile Gabelle: Gabelle is "the Postmaster, and some other taxing functionary, united" for the tenants of the Marquis St. Evrémonde. Gabelle is imprisoned...
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The La Gabelle generating station is a hydroelectric dam built on the Saint-Maurice River, in Quebec, in Canada. Property of Hydro-Québec, it was commissioned...
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Pierre Gabelle (1917–1982) was a French political figure during the Fourth Republic and Fifth Republic. Pierre Gabelle was born on 29 November 1917 in...
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Gabelle of salt was a historic salt tax in France. Gabelle may also refer to: Pierre Gabelle (1908-1982), a French political figure La Gabelle Generating...
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through six-year adjudications (some taxes, including the aides and the gabelle, had been farmed out in this way as early as 1604). The major tax collectors...
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Great Officers Maison du Roi Estates General Assembly of Notables Crown lands Provinces Parlements Taille Gabelle Seigneurial system Peasantry v t e...
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their salt revenue. The gabelle—a hated French salt tax—was enacted in 1286 From its inception, the application of the gabelle in France varied significantly...
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be raised by taxes, such as the land tax (taille) and the tax on salt (gabelle), and by contributions of men and service from the nobility. One key to...
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Revolt of the Pitauds (redirect from Gabelle Revolt)
was made compulsory to purchase salt from the salt loft (taxed salt). “Gabelle” officers took charge of punishing the unlawful trading of salt. But these...
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production and sales in order to raise tax revenue for the Tang dynasty. The "Gabelle" was a notoriously high tax levied upon salt in the Kingdom of France....
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labor on the roads) and from most other forms of taxation such as the gabelle (salt tax), and most important, the taille (France's oldest form of direct...
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considerable strain on royal revenues. In response, Richelieu raised the gabelle (salt tax) and the taille (land tax). The taille was enforced to provide...
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revolution, salt tax was abolished 1806 – Napoleon Bonaparte reinstated the Gabelle in France 1825 – Abolishment of the salt tax in England 1835 – First salt...
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Because salt is a necessity of life, the salt tax (sometimes called the salt gabelle, after the French term for a salt tax) had a broad base and could be set...
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He granted several privileges to Brittany, such as exemption from the gabelle, a tax on salt that was very unpopular in France. Under the Ancien Régime...
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(1934, as Dr. Ismay), and the 1935 version of A Tale of Two Cities as Gabelle. He portrayed the strict judge in Mr. Deeds Goes to Town (1936). He appeared...
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principal taxes included the aides and douanes (both customs duties), the gabelle (salt tax), and the taille (land tax). The taille was reduced at first...
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receives a letter from Gabelle, a former house servant in France, and agrees to defend him in the courts and leaves (Gabelle's Letter/I Always knew)....
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Largentier, who had grown rich on gathering in the salt tax called the gabelle. Largentier eventually being arrested for peculation, the château and the...
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collectors. In reality, throughout the Piedmont of the old regime, the salt gabelle was a compulsory tax and not linked to consumption. Not only that, salted...
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further stipulated that Dauphiné would be exempted from many taxes (like the gabelle); this statute was the subject of much subsequent parliamentary debate...
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in Louisiana did not have to pay royal taxes and were free of the hated gabelle. Under the Ancien Régime, Louisiana formed part of a larger colonial unit...
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from land, property, commerce, industry and from official offices). The Gabelle – A very complicated system of taxes and outsourced regional monopolies...
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(Voice dubbed by Tim Turner – uncredited) Marie Versini as Marie Gabelle Ian Bannen as Gabelle Alfie Bass as Jerry Cruncher Cecil Parker as Jarvis Lorry Stephen...
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Present (1957) as Junior Customs Officer A Tale of Two Cities (1958) as Gabelle She Didn't Say No! (1958) as Peter Howard Behind the Mask (1958) as Alan...
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railway lines. The building had previously been the offices of the Salt Gabelle, lending the building the nickname of the "salt palace". The building was...
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the duc de Guise and Cardinal de Lorraine. He led the crushing of the gabelle revolt of 1548 and then the effort to reconquer Boulogne from the English...
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Albi 1539: Gabelle salt tax revolt in Bordeaux, tax riot in Vermandois 1539–1542: Strikes over printers' wages in Lyon and Paris 1542: Gabelle revolt in...
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only to the poorest in France. The Second Estate was also exempt from the gabelle, which was the unpopular tax on salt, and also the taille, a land tax paid...
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