Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- List of maps
- Acknowledgements
- List of abbreviations
- Family tree of the Le Tellier: 1. Principal branch
- Family tree of the Le Tellier: 2. Royal household marital connections
- Map 1 The French provinces under Louis XIV
- General introduction: ‘Absolute monarchy’, dynasticism and the standing army
- Part I ‘Patrimonial bureaucracy’: The Le Tellier dynasty and the Ministry of War
- Part II The forging of the French officer corps and the standing army under Louis XIV
- Part III The high command of the French armies
- Conclusion: The preservation of the dynasty
- Appendix 1 Defining the grands
- Appendix 2 The proportion of revenue generated by the Extraordinaire des Guerres as a ‘primary receiver’
- Bibliography
- Index
- CAMBRIDGE STUDIES IN EARLY MODERN HISTORY
Appendix 2 - The proportion of revenue generated by the Extraordinaire des Guerres as a ‘primary receiver’
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 20 May 2010
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- List of maps
- Acknowledgements
- List of abbreviations
- Family tree of the Le Tellier: 1. Principal branch
- Family tree of the Le Tellier: 2. Royal household marital connections
- Map 1 The French provinces under Louis XIV
- General introduction: ‘Absolute monarchy’, dynasticism and the standing army
- Part I ‘Patrimonial bureaucracy’: The Le Tellier dynasty and the Ministry of War
- Part II The forging of the French officer corps and the standing army under Louis XIV
- Part III The high command of the French armies
- Conclusion: The preservation of the dynasty
- Appendix 1 Defining the grands
- Appendix 2 The proportion of revenue generated by the Extraordinaire des Guerres as a ‘primary receiver’
- Bibliography
- Index
- CAMBRIDGE STUDIES IN EARLY MODERN HISTORY
Summary
A caveat should be entered here. The evidence is far too fragmentary to make a wholly accurate estimate of the amount of income generated for the War Ministry from its own sources, such as contributions and confiscations levied on enemy and neutral territory, the fining of officers, and revenue from provinces administered by the Secretary of State for War. But John Lynn's estimates are so different to my own it is important to try to come to a rough assessment.
Lynn's estimates depend upon the misreading, in my view, of one key document and a doctoral thesis, and upon a narrow base of knowledge of the ministerial correspondence. The summary list of extraordinary receipts into the Extraordinaire des Guerres which still exists for 1678 appears to total 13.4 million livres. Of this, about 75 per cent came from contributions; about 5 per cent from confiscations; and the other 20 per cent came from a mixture of windfall revenues, bankers' bills of exchange processed by the Extraordinaire de Guerres for other people, fines on officers for misconduct, extra surplus revenue budgeted but not used, customs tolls on the Rhine, the sale of materials, and profits from sick soldiers hors de combat. But this list has been grievously misinterpreted by Lynn.
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- The Dynastic State and the Army under Louis XIVRoyal Service and Private Interest 1661–1701, pp. 365 - 366Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2002