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59 relations: Alain-René Lesage, Alexandre Balthazar Laurent Grimod de La Reynière, Alexandre Le Riche de La Poupelinière, Ancien Régime, Ange Laurent Lalive de Jully, Anne Robert Jacques Turgot, Antoine Crozat, Antoine Français de Nantes, Antoine Lavoisier, Étienne François, duc de Choiseul, Île Saint-Louis, Bay of Biscay, Bâtiments du Roi, Canal du Midi, Causes of the French Revolution, Chaplain, Charles François Paul Le Normant de Tournehem, Chemistry, Citizens: A Chronicle of the French Revolution, Farm (revenue leasing), Ferney-Voltaire, Ferragus: Chief of the Devorants, Fiske Kimball, French Louisiana, French Revolution, Gabelle, Girondins, Goût grec, Gourmand, Guillotine, Honoré de Balzac, Jacques Necker, Jean-Baptiste Colbert, Jean-Joseph de Laborde, Kingdom of France, Languedoc-Roussillon, Laurent Grimod de La Reynière, Limoges, List of French monarchs, Louis XIV of France, Louis XVI of France, Louise d'Épinay, Madame de Pompadour, Marchand-mercier, Marie-Anne Paulze Lavoisier, Maximilien de Béthune, Duke of Sully, Neoclassical architecture, Outsourcing, Peasant, Pierre Grimod du Fort, ..., Pierre-Paul Riquet, Salon (gathering), Superintendent of Finances, Taille, Tithe, Toulouse, Turcaret, Voltaire, Wall of the Ferme générale. Expand index (9 more) »
Alain-René Lesage
Alain-René Lesage (6 May 166817 November 1747; older spelling Le Sage) was a French novelist and playwright.
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Alexandre Balthazar Laurent Grimod de La Reynière
Alexandre-(Balthazard)-Laurent Grimod de La Reynière (20 November 1758, Paris – 25 December 1837), trained as a lawyer, acquired fame during the reign of Napoleon, for his sensual and public gastronomic lifestyle.
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Alexandre Le Riche de La Poupelinière
Alexandre Jean Joseph Le Riche de La Poupelinière, sometimes also written Popelinière ou Poupelinière (Paris, 1693 – 5 December 1762) was an immensely wealthy fermier général, the only son of his father, Alexandre Le Riche (1663-1735), seigneur of Courgains, (Anjou) and Brétignolles (Touraine), likewise a fermier général.
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Ancien Régime
The Ancien Régime (French for "old regime") was the political and social system of the Kingdom of France from the Late Middle Ages (circa 15th century) until 1789, when hereditary monarchy and the feudal system of French nobility were abolished by the.
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Ange Laurent Lalive de Jully
Ange-Laurent de La Live de Jully (2 October 1725 – 18 March 1779) was an 18th-century French financier and patron of arts.
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Anne Robert Jacques Turgot
Anne Robert Jacques Turgot, Baron de l'Aulne (10 May 172718 March 1781), commonly known as Turgot, was a French economist and statesman.
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Antoine Crozat
Antoine Crozat, marquis du Châtel (c. 1655 – 7 June 1738), French founder of an immense fortune, was the first proprietary owner of French Louisiana, from 1712 to 1717.
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Antoine Français de Nantes
Antoine Français, comte de Nantes (17567 March 1836), better known as Français of Nantes, was a French Count active during the French Revolution and Empire.
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Antoine Lavoisier
Antoine-Laurent de Lavoisier (also Antoine Lavoisier after the French Revolution;; 26 August 17438 May 1794) CNRS (Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique) was a French nobleman and chemist who was central to the 18th-century chemical revolution and who had a large influence on both the history of chemistry and the history of biology.
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Étienne François, duc de Choiseul
Étienne-François, Marquis de Stainville, 1er Duc de Choiseul (28 June 1719 – 8 May 1785) was a French military officer, diplomat and statesman.
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Île Saint-Louis
The Île Saint-Louis is one of two natural islands in the Seine river, in Paris, France (the other natural island is Île de la Cité; the Île aux Cygnes is artificial).
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Bay of Biscay
The Bay of Biscay (Golfe de Gascogne, Golfo de Vizcaya, Pleg-mor Gwaskogn, Bizkaiko Golkoa) is a gulf of the northeast Atlantic Ocean located south of the Celtic Sea.
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Bâtiments du Roi
The Bâtiments du Roi (The King's Buildings) was a division of Department of the household of the Kings of France (the "Maison du Roi") in France under the Ancien Régime.
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Canal du Midi
The Canal du Midi (meaning canal of the two seas) is a long canal in Southern France (le Midi).
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Causes of the French Revolution
The causes of the French Revolution can be attributed to several intertwining factors.
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Chaplain
A chaplain is a cleric (such as a minister, priest, pastor, rabbi, or imam), or a lay representative of a religious tradition, attached to a secular institution such as a hospital, prison, military unit, school, business, police department, fire department, university, or private chapel.
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Charles François Paul Le Normant de Tournehem
Charles François Paul Le Normant de Tournehem (1684–1751) was a French financier, a fermier-général, or tax-farmer.
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Chemistry
Chemistry is the scientific discipline involved with compounds composed of atoms, i.e. elements, and molecules, i.e. combinations of atoms: their composition, structure, properties, behavior and the changes they undergo during a reaction with other compounds.
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Citizens: A Chronicle of the French Revolution
Citizens: A Chronicle of the French Revolution is a book by the historian Simon Schama, published in 1989, the bicentenary of the French Revolution.
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Farm (revenue leasing)
Farming is a technique of financial management, namely the process of commuting (changing), by its assignment by legal contract to a third party, a future uncertain revenue stream into fixed and certain periodic rents, in consideration for which commutation a discount in value received is suffered.
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Ferney-Voltaire
Ferney-Voltaire is a commune in the Ain department in eastern France.
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Ferragus: Chief of the Devorants
Ferragus (Full title: Ferragus, chef des Dévorants; English: Ferragus, Chief of the Devorants) is an 1833 novel by French author Honoré de Balzac (1799–1850) and included in the Scènes de la vie parisienne section of his novel sequence La Comédie humaine.
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Fiske Kimball
Sidney Fiske Kimball (1888 – 1955) was an American architect, architectural historian and museum director.
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French Louisiana
The term French Louisiana refers to two distinct regions.
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French Revolution
The French Revolution (Révolution française) was a period of far-reaching social and political upheaval in France and its colonies that lasted from 1789 until 1799.
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Gabelle
The gabelle was a very unpopular tax on salt in France that was established during the mid-14th century and lasted, with brief lapses and revisions, until 1946.
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Girondins
The Girondins, Girondists or Gironde were members of a loosely knit political faction during the French Revolution.
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Goût grec
Goût grec (French, the "Greek taste") is the term applied to the earliest expression of the neoclassical style in France, it refers specifically to the decorative arts and architecture of the mid-1750s to the late 1760s.
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Gourmand
A gourmand is a person who takes great pleasure and interest in consuming good food and drink.
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Guillotine
A guillotine is an apparatus designed for efficiently carrying out executions by beheading.
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Honoré de Balzac
Honoré de Balzac (born Honoré Balzac, 20 May 1799 – 18 August 1850) was a French novelist and playwright.
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Jacques Necker
Jacques Necker (30 September 1732 – 9 April 1804) was a banker of Genevan origin who became a French statesman and finance minister for Louis XVI.
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Jean-Baptiste Colbert
Jean-Baptiste Colbert (29 August 1619 – 6 September 1683) was a French politician who served as the Minister of Finances of France from 1665 to 1683 under the rule of King Louis XIV.
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Jean-Joseph de Laborde
Jean-Joseph, marquis de Laborde (29 January 1724 – 18 April 1794) was a French businessman, fermier général and banker to the king, who turned politician.
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Kingdom of France
The Kingdom of France (Royaume de France) was a medieval and early modern monarchy in Western Europe.
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Languedoc-Roussillon
Languedoc-Roussillon (Lengadòc-Rosselhon; Llenguadoc-Rosselló) is a former administrative region of France.
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Laurent Grimod de La Reynière
Laurent Grimod de La Reynière (11 February 1734–26 December 1793) was a French financier and fermier général.
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Limoges
Limoges (Occitan: Lemòtges or Limòtges) is a city and commune, the capital of the Haute-Vienne department and was the administrative capital of the former Limousin region in west-central France.
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List of French monarchs
The monarchs of the Kingdom of France and its predecessors (and successor monarchies) ruled from the establishment of the Kingdom of the Franks in 486 until the fall of the Second French Empire in 1870, with several interruptions.
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Louis XIV of France
Louis XIV (Louis Dieudonné; 5 September 16381 September 1715), known as Louis the Great (Louis le Grand) or the Sun King (Roi Soleil), was a monarch of the House of Bourbon who reigned as King of France from 1643 until his death in 1715.
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Louis XVI of France
Louis XVI (23 August 1754 – 21 January 1793), born Louis-Auguste, was the last King of France before the fall of the monarchy during the French Revolution.
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Louise d'Épinay
Louise Florence Pétronille Tardieu d'Esclavelles d'Épinay (11 March 1726 – 17 April 1783), better known as Mme.
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Madame de Pompadour
Jeanne Antoinette Poisson, Marquise de Pompadour (29 December 1721 – 15 April 1764), commonly known as Madame de Pompadour, was a member of the French court and was the official chief mistress of Louis XV from 1745 to 1751, and remained influential as court favourite until her death.
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Marchand-mercier
A marchand-mercier is a French term for a type of entrepreneur working outside the guild system of craftsmen but carefully constrained by the regulations of a corporation under rules codified in 1613.
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Marie-Anne Paulze Lavoisier
Marie-Anne Pierrette Paulze (20 January 1758 in Montbrison, Loire, France – 10 February 1836) was a French chemist and noble.
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Maximilien de Béthune, Duke of Sully
Maximilien de Béthune, 1st Duke of Sully, Marquis of Rosny and Nogent, Count of Muret and Villebon, Viscount of Meaux (13 December 156022 December 1641) was a nobleman, soldier, statesman, and faithful right-hand man who assisted king Henry IV of France in the rule of France.
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Neoclassical architecture
Neoclassical architecture is an architectural style produced by the neoclassical movement that began in the mid-18th century.
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Outsourcing
In business, outsourcing is an agreement in which one company contracts its own internal activity to a different company.
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Peasant
A peasant is a pre-industrial agricultural laborer or farmer, especially one living in the Middle Ages under feudalism and paying rent, tax, fees or services to a landlord.
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Pierre Grimod du Fort
Pierre Grimod du Fort (1692 – October 1748) was a fermier général and art collector under Louis XV, and a member of the Grimaud, or Grimod, family.
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Pierre-Paul Riquet
Stele in Toulouse Cathedral Pierre-Paul Riquet, Baron de Bonrepos (29 June 1609 (some sources say 1604) – 4 October 1680) was the engineer and canal-builder responsible for the construction of the Canal du Midi.
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Salon (gathering)
A salon is a gathering of people under the roof of an inspiring host.
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Superintendent of Finances
The Superintendent of Finances (Surintendant des finances) was the name of the minister in charge of finances in France from 1561 to 1661.
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Taille
The taille was a direct land tax on the French peasantry and non-nobles in Ancien Régime France.
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Tithe
A tithe (from Old English: teogoþa "tenth") is a one-tenth part of something, paid as a contribution to a religious organization or compulsory tax to government.
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Toulouse
Toulouse (Tolosa, Tolosa) is the capital of the French department of Haute-Garonne and of the region of Occitanie.
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Turcaret
Turcaret (or Le Financier) is a comedy by Alain-René Lesage, first produced on 14 February 1709 at the Comédie-Française in Paris.
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Voltaire
François-Marie Arouet (21 November 1694 – 30 May 1778), known by his nom de plume Voltaire, was a French Enlightenment writer, historian and philosopher famous for his wit, his attacks on Christianity as a whole, especially the established Catholic Church, and his advocacy of freedom of religion, freedom of speech and separation of church and state.
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Wall of the Ferme générale
The Wall of the Ferme générale was commissioned by Antoine Lavoisier and built between 1784 and 1791 by the Ferme générale (General Farm), the corporation of tax farmers.
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References
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ferme_générale
