Louis XIV's Assault on Privilege: Nicolas Desmaretz and the Tax on Wealth

by Gary B. McCollim

The government of Louis XIV developed two taxes during the last thirty years of the king's reign that forced the privileged to pay. This book is a study of how those taxes developed and what caused them to be adopted.

Louis XIV's Assault on Privilege examines Nicolas Desmaretz, one of the most important finance ministers of the Bourbon monarchy. McCollim brings to life the man who was arguably the central figure in the final transformative...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1580464149
• ISBN13: 9781580464147
• Release Date: June 2012
• Publisher: University of Rochester Press
• Length: 330 Pages
• Weight: 1.55 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.2" x 6.0" x 9.1"