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Economy - Taxation in the Ancien Regime. Three very rare original documents concerning taxation during the reign of Louis [..]

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Economy - Taxation in the Ancien Regime. Three very rare original documents concerning taxation during the reign of Louis [..]
 
PHELYPAUX. Declaration du Roi, en interpretation de l’Etat du mois d’Aout 1758, qui ordonne que pendant six annees consecutives, il sera payé au Roi un Don gratuit par toutes les villes, fauxbourgs & & les bourgs du Royaume.
Paris, Imprimerie Royale, 1759

3 parti unite insieme in un volume in 4to. 275x215. Foxing ma buon esemplare, con ampi margini.

1. Declaration du Roi
Pagine 7, 1 bianca. Testatina xilografica figurata.
Il ‘don gratuit’ era in origine una contribuzione volontaria alle finanze francesi. Qui diventa una tassa, in cambio della quale il Re promette particolari ‘concessioni’. 

2. “Etat General de fixation des Sommes a payer annuellement pendant le temps de six annees consecutives, a compter du premier Fevrier 1759 …”
Pagine 39, 1 bianca. Testo su due colonne. 
Elenco delle località con le corrispettive somme da erogare, ordinate per ‘Generalite’; in fine ‘Provence’.

3. “Tarif des Droits que le Roi, etant en son Conseil, a ordonné et ordonne etre leves & percus pendant le temps de six annees consecutives, a compter du premier Fevrier 1759, en execution de l’Edit de Sa Majeste du mois d’aout precedent & de la Declaration de cejourd’hui, dans les Villes, Fauxbourgs, Banlieues, Bourgs & dependances ci-apres detailles, savoir: GENERALITE D’AMIENS.”
Pagine 13, 3 bianche. Testo su due colonne. 
Elenco delle località con le corrispettive somme da erogare, ordinate per ‘Generalite’; la prima ‘Amiens’, l’ultima 'Lyon’.
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