The ferme générale (French pronunciation: [fɛʁm ʒeneʁal], "general farm") was, in ancien régime France, essentially an outsourced customs, excise and indirect...

The Wall of the Ferme générale was one of the several city walls of Paris built between the early Middle Ages and the mid 19th century. Built between 1784...

number of aristocratic councils, and an administrator of the Ferme générale. The Ferme générale was one of the most hated components of the Ancien Régime...

The unpopular salt tax, known as the gabelle, was collected by the Ferme Générale. Salt served as a valuable source of income for the French king. In...

There is significant disagreement among historians of the French Revolution as to its causes. Usually, they acknowledge the presence of several interlinked...

the Ferme-Générale, was branded a traitor during the Reign of Terror by French revolutionaries. Paulze's father, another prominent Ferme-Générale member...

collectors were called receveurs royaux. In 1680, the system of the Ferme Générale was established, a franchised customs and excise operation in which...

amount of salt per year at a price that the government had set. The Ferme Générale was responsible for collecting the gabelle. As a region, Franche-Comté...

Ferme was a Téméraire class 74-gun ship of the line of the French Navy. Offered to the Crown by the Ferme générale as a Don des vaisseaux, she was renamed...

The gabelle (French pronunciation: [ɡabɛl]) was a very unpopular French salt tax that was established during the mid-14th century and lasted, with brief...

and the figure reached 800 at the beginning of the 18th century. A ferme générale was created for mail services in 1672, which meant that postal services...

Ferme was a 56-gun Bordelois-class ship of the line of the French Navy. She was funded by a don des vaisseaux donation from the Ferme Générale, and built...

Sèvres, part of the Wall of the Ferme générale, which was built around Paris between 1784 and 1791 by the ferme générale company of tax farmers. The station...

French nobleman and chemist who at the age of 26 bought a share in the Ferme générale, a tax farming financial company which advanced the estimated tax revenue...

French customs service was called the ferme générale ("General Farm") and operated under the monarchy. The ferme générale was a private company which bought...

Robin Hood of France. He became famous for his rebellion against the Ferme générale, the hated privatized tax collecting agency of the French ancien régime...

under the direction of Claude Nicolas Ledoux and at the request of the Ferme Générale. It enclosed 3,402 hectares, including the village of Austerlitz, which...

Seljuks, Mamluks, Ottomans, the French State prior to Louis XVI (see ferme générale), and Russia prior to 1862 and the Dutch East Indies (see pacht) prior...

1872 – though the circuits remained within the area of the Wall of the Ferme générale. On 5 February 1879 the Ministry of Posts and Telegraphs was formed...

the first circle of the Grands Boulevards to that of the Wall of the Ferme générale. To do this, he ordered the destruction of the house in which he was...

decreed the annexation to Paris of the area between the old Wall of the Ferme générale and the Wall of Thiers. The communes of Grenelle, Vaugirard and Javel...

century, tax collectors were called receveurs. In 1680, the system of the Ferme générale was established, a franchised customs and excise operation in which...

Public opinion preferred his 72-million-livres public loan to the ferme générale, an outsourced tax collection system. He managed to curtail Royal household...

and became known as the Place de l'Étoile. In 1787, the Wall of the Ferme générale (Mur des Fermiers généraux), and the two buildings of the Barrière de...

executed in Paris with 27 co-defendants also associated with the former ferme générale. May 18 – Battle of Tourcoing: French troops defeat British forces....

France. The building was built in the 18th century to receive the new Ferme générale. The museum was inaugurated in 1984, within the grounds of the Hôtel...

to the support of his father-in-law, Claude Dupin became part of the Ferme générale on 1 October 1726, after he sold his office in Châteauroux. Samuel Bernard...

legislative boundary of Paris since the 18th century had been the Wall of the Ferme Générale, sometimes translated as the "Farmers-General Wall", which had no defensive...

Parisians attempted to burn down the building belonging to the Wall of the Ferme générale. Hanriot was arrested and imprisoned in Bicêtre and released the next...

barrière de Bercy (of barrière des Poules), a toll gate of the Wall of the Ferme générale (1780s–1860). The Colbert building (bâtiment Colbert) is the main axis...