The gabelle was a very unpopular French salt tax that was established during the mid-14th century and lasted, with brief lapses and revisions, until 1946. Introduction · Smuggling · French Revolution

1790 – Post French revolution, salt tax was abolished; 1806 – Napoleon Bonaparte reinstated the Gabelle in France; 1825 – Abolishment of the salt tax in England ...

The French salt tax, however, was not yet a monopoly. Theoretically anyone could participate in the salt trade. The king fixed the maximum wholesale price of ...

18 окт. 2024 г. · In the 15th century the gabelle began to mean specifically the salt tax, that is, a tax on consumption of salt. The nobility, the clergy, and ...

29 июл. 2022 г. · Despite France's salt mines, French royalty began taxing salt in the 1200s as a way to finance war. The tax, called “gabelle,” remained in place ...

Introduced in the late 13th century and abrogated by the French Revolution in 1789, the salt tax was not uniformly levied across the French kingdom as its rate ...

The gabelle was originally an indirect tax that was applied to agricultural and industrial commodities, such as bed sheets, wheat, spices, and wine.

11 сент. 2019 г. · The gabelle or salt tax, for example, was levied at much higher amounts in Paris and surrounding provinces than in southern France. The nobility ...

23 сент. 2019 г. · Explores the Law Library's collection of 18th century French statutes, focusing on the enforcement of the salt tax in pre-revolutionary France.