Early Modern Tax Technology: Local Evidence from the French Gabelle (with Eva Davoine, Victor Gay & Igor Kolesnikov)

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A Historical Geographic Information System of the Grandes Gabelles in Early Modern France.

Abstract This note presents the development of a parish-level historical geographic information system (GIS) for the seventeenth-century French salt tax system of the gabelles based using an original manuscript map collection from 1665: Sanson’s Atlas des gabelles. In addition, it offers a detailed account of the tax system and provides international comparisons to contextualize its significance.