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Hippolyte A. Taine
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The Origins of Contemporary France: The Ancient Regime |
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English |
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Paperback |
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304 |
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2004-06-17 |
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1419176382 |
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Kessinger Publishing, LLC |
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1.45 pounds |
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8.11 x 0.68 x 10.69 inches |
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Product Description
The taxation authorities, however, in thus bearing down on taxable property has not released the taxable person without property. In the absence of land it seizes on men. In default of an income it taxes a man's wages. With the exception of the vingtièmes, the preceding taxes not only bore on those who possessed something but, again, on those who possessed nothing.
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