gabelle in the Oxford-Hachette French Dictionary

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gabelle, salt tax
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Collections of taxes, such as the extremely unpopular salt tax, the "gabelle", were contracted to private collectors (tax farmers), who, like all farmers, preoccupied themselves with making their holdings grow.
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