| French finances during the war were mainly financed by the increase in the taille tax, as well as indirect taxes like the gabelle and customs fees. |
| These imposts and that of the gabelle were henceforth permanent. |
| This hated tax became the instigation for a huge black market trade, because the gabelle was not the same throughout the country. |
| He was the syndic of the lessees of the royal salt marshes of Peccais, an integral part of the gabelle. |
| From this figure, we subtracted the total of what the king received from the gabelle and the total costs of collecting this sum in Languedoc. |
| He granted several privileges to Brittany, such as exemption from the gabelle, a tax on salt which was very unpopular in France. |
