HTST 201 Lecture Notes - Lecture 7: Gabelle Of Salt, Flying Shuttle, Cultural Capital
7 Apr 2015
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First estate- clergy: bishoprics, dioceses and archdioceses. Church assemblies: maintain independence, 97% of people catholic in french, owned about 1/10th total land of the entire country. Resistance to taxations: parlements, pays d"etat, refused to post new laws regarding taxations, provinces refused to recognize new laws. Third estate: not in the church or nobility, but ordinary people. Some of them could be reasonably wealthy (middle class: taxes, dixieme, 1749 vingtieme, taille land tax, taillon military tax (to support, gabelle salt tax. Nunu: aides taxes on luxury goods (wine, douane tariffs, if you wanted to bring trade goods into a city, or a market, tithes towards the church. Population growth and inflation: 20 million to 27. 5 million. Agricultural evolution: crop rotation, fertilizers, maize, potatoes. Industrial evolution: bought or rented their land, urban center"s of commerce, lyon, marseille, bordeaux, cadiz, nantes, industries textiles, lodeve, bedarieux, mazamet wool and cotton, mines, metallurgy.
