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1789 fr →

Cahier de doléances of the town of Houdan

Taxing spending, not land alone

They likewise vote that persons owning no landed property — merchants, bankers, capitalists and rentiers — be taxed in proportion to their spending and their lodging.

Houdan, bailliage of Montfort-l'Amaury

Manuscript cahier, March 1789 — transcribed from photographs, uncollated

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