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Map Description
Historical Map of France in
1789.
Illustrating:
Top Left
The gouvernements and their capitals.
Top Right
The generalities
(généralités) or intendancies and their capitals.
- Pays d'Elections (pays d'élections)
- Pays d'Etats (pays d'états)
- Provinces / Districts
Bottom Left
The Salt Tax and the Customs.
- Region of the great salt tax (grande gabelle)
- Region of the Rethel salt tax (gabelle du Rethelois)
- Region of the salt-works tax (gabelle de salines)
- Region of the quart-boullion
- Region of the redeemed provinces
- Region of the free provinces
- The figures show the relative prices paid for a certain amount
of salt in various parts of France.
- Boundary of the cinq grosses germes, i.e. subject to
the tariff of 1664
- Boundary of the provinces réputées étrangères au royaume,
i.e. as regards the tariff of 1664
- Provinces d'étrangèr effectif, i.e. acquired since
1664, or endowed with special privileges
- B. = Bishopric / C. = County / LAB. = Labourd
Bottom Right
Laws and Courts.
- Region of the "customary (feudal) law"
- Region of the "written (Roman) law"
- Boundary of jurisdiction of a parlement or supreme
council
- Seat of a parlement of conseil souverain
- Seat of a chambre des comptes
- Seat of a cour des aides
- Seat of an admiralty
- Seat of a bureau de finance and chambre du domaine
- Seat of a cour des monnaies
- Seat of a prévôts des maréchaux
- Seat of a chief court of the salt tax
- Seat of a grand mastership of waters and forests
- B. = Bishopric / C. = County / LAB. = Labourd
Credits
University of Texas at Austin.
Historical Atlas by William Shepherd (1911).
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