The King's Finances

Question 1

Direct taxes took … from peasants

Answer 1

10-15% of peasant’s gross product

Question 2

Tithes were …

Answer 2

8% average tax

Question 3

Calone told Louis on the … that France was on the verge of bankruptcy

Answer 3

20th August 1786

Question 4

The revenue for 1786 was … whilst the deficit was …

Answer 4

475 million livres, and 587 million livres

Question 5

The American War of Independence cost…

Answer 5

1 billion livres

Question 6

War saw gap between income and expenditure increase to …

Answer 6

~160 million livres

Question 7

Necker appointed…

Answer 7

Controller-General of Finance 1776

Question 8

Doyle on Necker:

Answer 8

The man had an “opulence as a banker”

Question 9

The Complete Rendu was published

Answer 9

February 1781

Question 10

The Complete Rendu raised … by …

Answer 10

520 million livres in loans by May 1781

Question 11

Schama on he Complete Rendu:

Answer 11

Neckers claims “the kind of spurious good cheer that led the French monarchy down the primrose path to perdition”