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Definition of Gabelles

Gabelle
Gabelle Ga`belle", n. [F. See Gabel.] A tax, especially on salt. [France] --Brande & C.

Meaning of Gabelles from wikipedia

- petites gabelles. On 16 March 1341, King Philip VI established the first permanent royal tax on salt in France, known as the Pays de grandes gabelles. Repressive...
- Gabelle of salt was a historic salt tax in France. Gabelle may also refer to: Pierre Gabelle (1908-1982), a French political figure La Gabelle Generating...
- Pierre Gabelle (1917–1982) was a French political figure during the Fourth Republic and Fifth Republic. Pierre Gabelle was born on 29 November 1917 in...
- Théophile Gabelle: Gabelle is "the Postmaster, and some other taxing functionary, united" for the tenants of the Marquis St. Evrémonde. Gabelle is imprisoned...
- The La Gabelle generating station is a hydroelectric dam built on the Saint-Maurice River, in Quebec, in Canada. Property of Hydro-Québec, it was commissioned...
- through six-year adjudications (some taxes, including the aides and the gabelle, had been farmed out in this way as early as 1604). The major tax collectors...
- prin****l taxes included the aides and douanes (both customs duties), the gabelle (salt tax), and the taille (land tax). The taille was reduced at first...
- He granted several privileges to Brittany, such as exemption from the gabelle, a tax on salt that was very unpo****r in France. Under the Ancien Régime...
- was made compulsory to purchase salt from the salt loft (taxed salt). “Gabelleofficers took charge of punishing the unlawful trading of salt. But these...
- their salt revenue. The gabelle—a hated French salt tax—was enacted in 1286. From its inception, the application of the gabelle in France varied significantly...