Question

Q2. What were the three types of taxes paid by the people during the Old regime in France?​

Answer 1

Answer:

In the decades leading to the French Revolution, peasants paid a land tax to the state (the taille) and a 5% property tax (the vingtième; see below). All paid a tax on the number of people in the family (capitation), depending on the status of the taxpayer (from poor to prince).

Answer 2

Explanation:

There were three kinds of provinces: the “pays d'élection,” the “pays d'état,” and the “pays d'imposition.” In the “pays d'élection” (the longest held possessions of the French crown) the assessment and collection of taxes were originally trusted to elected officials, but later these positions were bought