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0,000 livres provided by the capitation-tax, they paid in only 14,000
livres," that is to say, "2 sous and 2 deniers for the same purpose
which costs 12 sous per livre to those chargeable with the taille."
According to Calonne, "if concessions and privileges had been suppressed
the vingtiemes would have furnished double the amount." In this respect
the most opulent were the most skillful in protecting themselves. "With
the intendants," said the Duc d'Orleans, "I settle matters, and pay
about what I please," and he calculated that the provincial
administration, rigorously taxing him, would cause him to lose 300,000
livres rental. It has been proved that the princes of the blood paid,
for their two-twentieths, 188,000 instead of 2,400,000 livres. In the
main, in this regime, exception from taxation is the last remnant of
sovereignty or, at least, of independence. The privileged person avoids
or repels taxation, not merely because it despoils him, but because it
belittles him; it is a mark of the commoner, that is to say, of former
servitude, and he resists the fisc (the revenue services) as much
through pride as through interest. IV. Their Feudal Rights. These
advantages are