Louis XIV's Assault on Privilege: Nicolas Desmaretz and the Tax on Wealth

Gary B. McCollim

doi:10.1017/9781571138286

Louis XIV's Assault on Privilege

Nicolas Desmaretz and the Tax on Wealth

- Get access
  
  Check if you have access via personal or institutional login
  
  Log in Register
Cited by 5
Cited by
- 5
Crossref Citations

This Book has been cited by the following publications. This list is generated based on data provided by Crossref.

Ostwald, Jamel 2014. Successful Strategies. p. 100.

CrossRef

Google Scholar

2015. Economic Development in Early Modern France. p. 1.

CrossRef

Google Scholar

Félix, Joël 2018. ‘The most difficult financial matter that has ever presented itself’: paper money and the financing of warfare under Louis XIV. Financial History Review, Vol. 25, Issue. 1, p. 43.

CrossRef

Google Scholar

AĞDEMİR, Zeynep 2019. Physiocracy and Taxes: A Historical Social Analysis. Fiscaoeconomia, Vol. 3, Issue. 2, p. 161.

CrossRef

Google Scholar

Thompson, Victoria E. 2023. The Eighteenth-Century Hôtel Particulier . French Historical Studies, Vol. 46, Issue. 4, p. 491.

CrossRef

Google Scholar

Gary B. McCollim

Publisher:: Boydell & Brewer
Online publication date:: February 2023
Print publication year:: 2012
Online ISBN:: 9781571138286
DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1017/9781571138286

Series:: Changing Perspectives on Early Modern Europe
Subjects:: British History: General Interest, History

Export citation

Information

Contents

Metrics

The government of Louis XIV developed two taxes during the last thirty years of the king's reign that forced the privileged to pay. This book is a study of how those taxes developed and what caused them to be adopted.

- Aa Reduce text
- Aa Enlarge text

View selected items
Save to my bookmarks
Export citations
Download PDF (zip)
Save to Kindle
Save to Dropbox
Save to Google Drive
Save content to
To save content items to your account, please confirm that you agree to abide by our usage policies. If this is the first time you use this feature, you will be asked to authorise Cambridge Core to connect with your account. Find out more about saving content to .

To save content items to your Kindle, first ensure [email protected] is added to your Approved Personal Document E-mail List under your Personal Document Settings on the Manage Your Content and Devices page of your Amazon account. Then enter the ‘name’ part of your Kindle email address below. Find out more about saving to your Kindle.

Note you can select to save to either the @free.kindle.com or @kindle.com variations. ‘@free.kindle.com’ emails are free but can only be saved to your device when it is connected to wi-fi. ‘@kindle.com’ emails can be delivered even when you are not connected to wi-fi, but note that service fees apply.

Find out more about the Kindle Personal Document Service.

Please be advised that item(s) you selected are not available.
You are about to save
Your Kindle email address

Please provide your Kindle email.

@free.kindle.com @kindle.com (service fees apply)

By using this service, you agree that you will only keep content for personal use, and will not openly distribute them via Dropbox, Google Drive or other file sharing services

Metrics

Total number of HTML views: 0

Total number of PDF views: 0 *

Loading metrics...

Total views: 0 *

Loading metrics...

* Views captured on Cambridge Core between #date#. This data will be updated every 24 hours.

Usage data cannot currently be displayed.

Louis XIV's Assault on Privilege

Nicolas Desmaretz and the Tax on Wealth

This Book has been cited by the following publications. This list is generated based on data provided by Crossref.

Book description

Refine List

Actions for selected content:

Contents

Frontmatter
pp i-iv

Dedication
pp v-vi

Contents
pp vii-vii

List of Illustrations
pp viii-viii

Preface
pp ix-x

List of Abbreviations
pp xi-xii

Introduction
pp 1-13

1 - The Fiscal System under Louis XIV
pp 14-49

2 - The Rise of the Administrative Monarchy
pp 50-88

3 - Nicolas Desmaretz and Company
pp 89-127

4 - Handling Ideas for Reform
pp 128-159

5 - The Establishment of the Dixième
pp 160-193

6 - After the Dixième
pp 194-220

Conclusion
pp 221-228

Appendix 1 - The Conseil d’en haut, or the Council of Ministers
pp 229-231

Appendix 2 - Members of the Royal Council of Finances under Louis XIV
pp 232-233

Appendix 3 - Controllers General, Directors, and Intendants of Finances
pp 234-236

Appendix 4 - Glossary of Terms
pp 237-242

Notes
pp 243-294

Bibliography
pp 295-306

Index
pp 307-318

Metrics

Full text views

Book summary page views

Louis XIV's Assault on Privilege

Nicolas Desmaretz and the Tax on Wealth

Book description

Refine List

Actions for selected content:

Save Search

Contents

Metrics

Full text views

Book summary page views