Taxes, Privileges, and Politics at the End of the Old Regime in France
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This book starts from the universal direct tax levied by the French monarchy on all subjects from 1695 to before the Great Revolution, and analyzes the results and difficulties encountered by this tax reform with an egalitarian tone in a class-group society. The author extensively cites various historical materials and comprehensively describes in detail the resistance encountered by the absolutist monarchy when implementing this policy, which includes not only mentality and concept, but also social structure and institutional settings. He then concludes that the implementation of the new tax system and the political-social repercussions it caused were important factors that led to the disintegration of the political-social order of the old system, and were also an important opportunity to breed and create modern political concepts.
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