Sentence example with the word 'gabelle'

gabelle

Last update: October 6, 2015


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The same year he published a pamphlet against feudal aids and the gabelle, for which he was denounced and arrested, but provisionally released.   [Please select]

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The gabelle, with its obligatory seven pounds of salt, approached a poll-tax in its operation.   [Please select]

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] There was another burden which shared with the taille and the gabelle the especial hatred of the French peasantry.   [Please select]

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Long before this, the philosopher-statesman Kwan-tsz of Ts'i had so developed the agriculture, fisheries, trade, and salt gabelle, and had governed the country in such a way that his State, hitherto of minor importance, soon took the lead amongst the Chinese powers for wealth and for military influence.'   [Please select]

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