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Taxes and Agrarian Life in Early Modern France: Land Sales, 1550–1730

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  • Hoffman, Philip T.

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Between 1550 and 1730, privileged investors in France—nobles, officers, and wealthy merchants—bought up enormous quantities of land from peasants. The transfer of property has attracted considerable attention from historians, but it has never been satisfactorily explained. The paper invokes the tax exemptions the privileged enjoyed to account for the transfer—an explanation that fits both the chronology of the land sales and the identity of the purchasers. The paper then examines how the tax system throttled growth in the agricultural sector.

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  • Hoffman, Philip T., 1986. "Taxes and Agrarian Life in Early Modern France: Land Sales, 1550–1730," The Journal of Economic History, Cambridge University Press, vol. 46(1), pages 37-55, March.
    • Handle: RePEc:cup:jechis:v:46:y:1986:i:01:p:37-55_04
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    1. Eugene White, 2001. "France's Slow Transition from Privatized to Government-Administered Tax Collection: Tax Farming in the Eighteenth Century," Departmental Working Papers 200116, Rutgers University, Department of Economics.
    2. Philip T. Hoffman, 1988. "Institutions and Agriculture in Old Regime France," Politics & Society, , vol. 16(2-3), pages 241-264, June.
    3. Jack A. Goldstone, 1988. "Regional Ecology and Agrarian Development in England and France," Politics & Society, , vol. 16(2-3), pages 287-334, June.
    4. Eugene N. White, 2004. "From privatized to government‐administered tax collection: tax farming in eighteenth‐century France," Economic History Review, Economic History Society, vol. 57(4), pages 636-663, November.

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