Francia . sotto il peso oftaxation ; il prezzo del sale è stata multipUed fivetimes poiché i giorni di Henri IV.; la viticoltura è stata beingruined da imposizioni ; ogni manufatto hadincreased cinque volte nel prezzo e le merci nel passaggio fromone Provincia per un altro, divenne venti volte dearerthrough doganale esorbitanti. È stato tutto invano. Colbertsdreams per regolare e coordinare la tassazione weredoomed per essere non realizzati, perché economia e peacewere le necessarie premesse. Louis costruito Versailles,e immerso in una guerra ; e mentre il suo ministro colpito inil classi privilegiate, il Ki

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France . under the weight oftaxation ; the price of salt had been multipUed fivetimes since the days of Henri IV.; viticulture was beingruined by impositions ; every manufactured article hadincreased five times in price, and goods, in passing fromone Province to another, became twenty times dearerthrough exorbitant Customs. It was all in vain. Colbertsdreams for regulating and co-ordinating taxation weredoomed to be unrealized, because economy and peacewere the necessary preliminaries. Louis built Versailles, and plunged into war ; and whilst his Minister struck atthe privileged classes, the King was ennobling thenation and keeping the noblesse depee in luxury andidleness. Colbert died in disgrace; economists are seldompopular with autocrats. The tax-farmers were alwaysready to advance loans, at a price to be wrung from theworkers. When Colbert had gone, Louis was soonborrowing at 400 per cent. As things were, it is easy to see that Colbert wasattempting the impossible. But had he succeeded in. Aifg: Risch^i(2. MME. DE MAINTENON. Poy/CS 281-307.From the portrait hy Mignard at Versailles. LOUIS XIV. AND THE HUGUENOTS 285 cleansing the Augean stable of financial maladministrationand correcting the abuses accumulated in the course ofcenturies of disorder, he might well have enabled theMonarchy to save itself. The splendours of Versaillesand the elegance of the Court of Le Roi Soleil, thegrandeur of his ambitions, the imposing greatness of hismilitary forces, may easily blind us to the critical positionof the Crown at this period. But the harmony of thepraises of the poets and the courtier eloquence of theBishops is rudely disturbed by the reports of Colbert.Behind all the glitter and magnificence of the Court andCamp, he reveals to us the hunger and misery of thepeasants and the people, harassed by tax-gatherers, irritated by impositions and the seizure of their produce, ruined by exactions which paralyzed the market-place, starving and diseased for lack of salt to season

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• bookcentury1900
• bookdecade1910
• bookpublisherlondo
• bookyear1913