| Nevertheless, in most provinces, nobles continued to escape the oldest basic direct tax, the taille, not to mention forced labour on the roads. |
| The main direct tax, the taille, was levied on persons in central provinces, but on land in peripheral ones like Languedoc. |
| As early as 1439 the nobility had given the king the right to maintain a standing army and to raise the taille which was a tax to pay for the army. |
| He abandoned the countryside above all to escape the taille, a tax to which, unlike the nobles, he would have been subject if he had continued to live in rural France. |
| The government restructured the tax base to place greater emphasis on indirect taxes rather than on the peasant-based taille. |
| The taille, which is produced by the second pressing, is sold off. |
