gabelle

Before 1790, the gabelle was a very unpopular tax on salt.

Citizen Gabelle was called to confirm it, and did so.

The mysterious letter has come from Gabelle, the tax collector.

And what is the message to the unfortunate Gabelle in prison?"

The gabelle was the most unpopular of the taxes.

Some provinces are allowed to compound for the gabelle or salt-tax.

Local points of interest include La Gabelle, a power plant completed in 1924.

A gabelle was put upon wine and salt.

The gabelle existed outside France, even after 1790.

Certain provinces and cities had won special privileges (such as lower rates in the gabelle or salt tax).

He has a duty to free Gabelle, and to dispose of his property once and for all.

In his time, government taxes were levied on salt ( the gabelle), tobacco, and farming.

Gabelle is "named after the hated salt tax".

Then followed the announcement of the gabelle.

He tells us that Gabelle, the chief functionary, has been collecting few taxes these days, and no rent at all.

In 1675, the red bonnets in Brittany rebelled against the gabelle.

Gabelle - A tax on salt.

Go, you are for the old self-called princes of the peace, together with the wranglers against the Cardinal and the gabelle.

The gabelle was very unpopular and was one of the complaints that led to the French Revolution.

"And your people wallow in gabelle?"

"Lay hands on this stranger if he seeks to lodge in your village to-night, and be sure that his business is honest, Gabelle."

Whereupon, Monsieur Gabelle did heavily bar his door, and retire to hold counsel with himself.

Residents of La Rochelle rebelled against the gabelle, or salt tax, in 1542. "

The ubiquity of salt use caused the French government to impose the gabelle, a tax on salt consumption.

He granted several privileges to Brittany, such as the exemption from the gabelle, a tax on salt which was very unpopular in France.