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What is a gabelle?

What is a gabelle? Here are some definitions.

Noun
  1. A tax; especially, the tax on salt levied in pre-Revolutionary France.
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By means of a draft on the receiver of taxes and the gabelle officer of the town, two hundred golden saluts were paid for it.
The Latin form of the word is gabellum, and the French gabelle.
This hated tax became the instigation for a huge black market trade, because the gabelle was not the same throughout the country.
These imposts and that of the gabelle were henceforth permanent.
The gabelle, which led to several rebellions, was not abolished until the Revolution.
He granted several privileges to Brittany, such as exemption from the gabelle, a tax on salt which was very unpopular in France.

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