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Question
What were the taxes the peasants had to pay in France on the eve of Revolution?
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Solution
- The common people paid the – one tenth of the annual produce or earnings.
- The peasants paid taxes to the state such as Taille (land tax), Gabelle (salt tax), etc., and provided free labour (corvee) for the construction of public roads.
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