Chapter 14: Liberté (Liberty), Egalité (Equality), Tax Breaks

Question 1

There were many arbitrary provisions [to the gabelle, or French salt tax], such as _________ for the town of _________; for some, but not all _________ institutions; some officers; some magistrates; some people of note.

Answer 1

exemptions; Coillioure; religious

Question 2

One of the gabelle’s most irritating inventions was the “____ ___ ______,” the salt duty. Every person in the Grande Gabelle over the age of ______ was required to purchase 7 kilos of salt each year at a fixed government price.

Answer 2

sel du devoir; eight

Question 3

Louis XIV (14th) put the state’s finance and commerce in the hands of ______-________ ________, the son of a merchant family from the _________ region.

Answer 3

Jean-Baptiste Colbert; Champagne

Question 4

The “_________,” the hated collectors and enforcers of the gabelle, were often crude and lawless men, ________ of their special privileges. which included _________ _____ and stopping, questioning, searching, or _________ people at will.

Answer 4

gabelous; abusive; carrying arms; arresting

Question 5

By the late eighteenth century, more than _______ French men, women, and even _________ were sentenced to prison or _______ every year for crimes against the _________.

Answer 5

3500; children; death; gabelle

Question 6

In 1804, _________ _________, who had risen to head of the revolutionary army and then rose to first consul, became _______ of the French. He reinstated _______ but without any exemption for ________.

Answer 6

Napoléon Bonaparte; emperor; gabelle; Brittany