[HIST 099] - Midterm Exam Guide - Everything you need to know! (18 pages long)
7 Feb 2017
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You normally look at 15th-18th century france from the top down, but we look from bottom up. This helps understand how the system actually worked. Brittany had a tax system where the noblemen would ask for money. The nobles got their income from the peasants who worked on their land, piad rent, etc. You are not in favor of high taxes as a nobleman because then you lose money from the peasants. So you get money from the merchants, who live in towns/urban centers. But see if you tax bread, people get mad and you have revolutions and things. The price of bread reached an all-time high on bastille day. Wine ta(cid:454)ed highl(cid:455) i(cid:374) fra(cid:374)(cid:272)e, (cid:449)eather i(cid:374) britta(cid:374)(cid:455) did(cid:374)"t let the(cid:373) gro(cid:449) it a(cid:374)(cid:455)(cid:373)ore. Salt produced in brittany, not taxable massive salt monopoly in france not enforceable in brittany. Louis 14 was convinced this was the cause of the urban revolt.
