what is the meaning of taille??
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Taille, the most important direct tax of the pre-Revolutionary monarchy in France.
Its unequal distribution, with clergy and nobles exempt, made it one of the hated institutions of the ancien régime.
The taille originated in the early Middle Ages as an arbitrary exaction from peasants.
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a tax levied on the common people by the king or an overlord
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