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    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...
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    Sophie Taillé-Polian (French pronunciation: [sɔfi taje pɔljɑ̃]; née Taillé; born 4 October 1974) is a French politician who has represented Val-de-Marne's...
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  • Look up Taille or taille in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Taille was a land tax in Ancien Régime France. Taille may also refer to: Lower-grade juice...
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    Taillé aux greubons is a salted bakery specialty from Vaud, in Switzerland. "Greubon" is a Swiss term for the crackling produced as residue from rendering...
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    Taille de Noyer (also known as Mullanphy-Chambers House) is a historic house at 1 rue Taille de Noyer in Florissant, Missouri. It was built in 1800 as...
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    The taille, also called the taille de hautbois or the alto oboe, was a Baroque tenor oboe pitched in F. It had a straight body, an open bell, and two keys...
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    Basse-taille (bahss-tah-ee) is an enamelling technique in which the artist creates a low-relief pattern in metal, usually silver or gold, by engraving...
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    Cuvée (redirect from Taille (Champagne))
    000 kg of grapes (a marc), while the following 500 litres are known as the taille (tail), and are expected to give wines of a coarser character. Many Champagne...
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    Defence and Intervention Frigate) or FDI, formerly denominated Frégate de Taille Intermédiaire (English: Medium-Size Frigate) or FTI, is a programme launched...
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    Emmanuel de La Taille (16 July 1932 – 13 October 2021) was a French journalist and television producer. He worked for TF1, where he was an economic correspondent...
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    September 2015. Retrieved 1 November 2014. "Un territoire ancien et de petite taille" (PDF) (in French). www.notaires.paris-idf.fr. February 2012. p. 11. Archived...
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    Jean de La Taille (French pronunciation: [ʒɑ̃ də la taj]; c.1540 – c.1607) was a French poet and dramatist born in Bondaroy. He studied the humanities...
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    corno da caccia, corno da tirarsi, lituo oboe oboe d'amore oboe da caccia taille trombone tromba da tirarsi timpani tromba (natural trumpet, clarino trumpet)...
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    Group, with the names Braque Français De Grande Taille and Braque Français, De Petite Taille - petite taille (smaller size) means the Pyrenean is smaller...
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    demanded great sums, which needed to be raised by taxes, such as the land tax (taille) and the tax on salt (gabelle), and by contributions of men and service...
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  • African wilderness. 46a 20a "Joey and the Magic Bean" "(Un problème de taille)" Olivier Jean-Marie Olivier Jean-Marie Thomas Szabo January 25, 2001 (2001-01-25)...
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  • he must accept Tailles' challenge but not harm Tailles, under penalty of death. Geralt accepts, but avoids punishment by parrying Tailles' sword so that...
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  • Archived from the original on 9 August 2018. Retrieved 9 August 2018. "De la taille dans la raquette !". ASVEL. 2021-08-16. Retrieved 2021-08-16. "Youssoupha...
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    Archived from the original on 3 June 2023. Retrieved 30 September 2017. "La taille de Napoléon". napoleon.org (in French). Archived from the original on 4...
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    the 13th century by the concatenation of a two-word war-cry: taille haut, where "taille" is the cutting edge of a sword and "haut" means high or 'raised...
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  • Alexander Sokolov (1955–2022) was a direct-carving or taille directe marble sculptor. He spent time working and exhibiting in Ireland, France and Spain...
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    instrumental ensemble consisting of a horn (to reinforce the soprano), two oboes, taille, violino piccolo, strings and basso continuo including bassoon. Bach used...
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  • Scottish origin, deriving from Taille-fer (see: Taillefer), the Old French nickname for a strong man or ferocious warrior (taille(r) meaning 'to cut' and fer...
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  • technique Aquatint Assemblage (art) technique Animation (digital art) Basse-taille enameling technique Burnishing Freehand brush work Camaïeu technique Cast...
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    the largest in the world to carry the rating of frigate. The Frégates de Taille Intermédiaire (FTI), which means frigates of intermediate size, is a French...
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    practiced in the Romanesque period. In Gothic art the finest work is in basse-taille and ronde-bosse techniques, but cheaper champlevé works continued to be...
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    exempt from the gabelle, which was the unpopular tax on salt, and also the taille, a land tax paid by peasants, and the oldest form of taxation in France...
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    May 2023. The first known use of flirt was in 1580 La Taille, Jean de; Arioste, L'; La Taille, Jacques de (9 August 1573). La famine, ou Les Gabéonites...
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  • century till the mid-1820s, the terms primo basso, basse chantante, and basse-taille were often used for men who would later be called baritones. These included...
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    Treble viol (dessus) Alto viol Bass viol Division viol Lyra viol Tenor viol (taille) Great bass violone Contrabass violone chordophones 321.322-71 Spain stringed...
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