Privilege and the politics of taxation in Eighteenth-century France (
Editorial CAMBRIDGE UNIVERSITY PRESS
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- Publisher CAMBRIDGE UNIVERSITY PRESS
- ISBN13 9780521771498
- ISBN10 0521771498
- Type Book
- Pages 353
- Published 2000
- Bookbinding Cloth
Privilege and the politics of taxation in Eighteenth-century France (
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This book offers a lucid new interpretation of the Ancien Régime and the origins of the French Revolution. It examines what was arguably the most ambitious project of the eighteenth-century French monarchy: the attempt to impose direct taxes on formerly tax-exempt privileged elites. Drawing on impressive archival research, Michael Kwass demonstrates that the levy of these taxes, which struck elites with some force, not only altered the relationship between monarchy and social hierarchy, but also transformed political language and attitudes; attitudes that ultimately led to revolution.