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The Life and Writings of Turgot, Comptroller General of France, 1774-6
Anne-Robert-Jacques Turgot (baron de l'Aulne)
出版
Burt Franklin
, 1971
主題
Business & Economics / Public Finance
Business & Economics / Economics / General
Social Science / General
ISBN
0833744518
9780833744517
URL
http://books.google.com.hk/books?id=H9pHAAAAYAAJ&hl=&source=gbs_api
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated.1895 Excerpt: ... a second circular, prefacing it by expressing the ' very great satisfaction' it gave him to see 'the zeal with which MM. the Cures gave themselves to the public good.' Alluding to certain memorials and returns he had received upon matters of administration, he remarks: 'I have seen with pain that in some parishes the cure has, alone, signed because no one else could write; this excess of ignorance in the people appears to me a great evil, and I exhort MM. the Cures to concern themselves with the means of spreading a little more instruction in the country places, and to propose to me such measures as they would judge to be most efficacious.' The rest of the letter is occupied in requesting their assistance for arriving at some improved basis for the assessment throughout the province of that direct tax known as the taille. As the oppression suffered by the people of France under the operation of the taille and the corvees formed one of the most important factors in the production of the French Eevolution, a short study of these two burdens, in their connection with Turgot's work, will not be unprofitable. The taiiu 2. The taille, a personal tax of feudal origin of vari able amount, had in the changed conditions of France, under a succession of expensive Governments, become grievously arbitrary and burdensome. It was levied upon the individual by the official authorities of the province, who were guided in fixing the amount merely by their own estimate of hisability to pay it. First, the Comptroller-General of Finances in Paris finds that he requires so many millions for the service of the State, which he will obtain, so much by one channel, so much by another--so much by the taille. He divides this lump sum fixed for the taille over the several genera...
