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How the tax system contributed with the French Revolution.
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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 ).

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