Monday 4 November 2013

Never been liked have they in any country? Tax inspectors!

LOCAL HISTORY:  REVOLTS AGAINST TAX COLLECTION IN THE SEVENTEENTH CENTURY  -  GABELOUS ET CROQUANTS

Gavin Porter gives an account of popular uprisings against high taxation in the first half of the seventeenth century and of the punishments meted out to ringleaders.
Look in the Patrimoine label to read Gavin Porter's researches
Val says  Malc when he left University was in advertising, then became a TAX inspector before becoming an antiquarian bookseller.