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

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.

List of contents

Introduction
The Fiscal System under Louis XIV
The Rise of the Administrative Monarchy
Nicolas Desmaretz and Company
Handling Ideas for Reform
The Establishment of the Dixiéme
After the Dixiéme
Conclusion
The Conseil d'en haut, or the Council of Ministers
Members of the Royal Council of Finances under Louis XIV
Controllers General, Directors, and Intendants of Finances
Glossary of Terms
Notes
Bibliography
Index

About the author

Gary B. McCollim

Product details

• Authors: Gary B McCollim, Gary B. McCollim
• Publisher: Boydell & Brewer
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 30.06.2012
• EAN: 9781580464147
• ISBN: 978-1-58046-414-7
• No. of pages: 330
• Dimensions: 152 mm x 231 mm x 30 mm
• Weight: 703 g
• Series: Changing Perspectives on Early
• Subjects: Guides > Law, job, finance > Taxes; Social sciences, law, business > Business > Management