ASSISTANCES

See also: Assistances (homonymy)

In medieval France and of Old Mode, the assistances were the indirect taxes taken on all the levels of the company, on the goods, the food products, the means of transport, etc

With the Moyen-âge, the assistance with the 4 cases is an obligation that the vassal one must with its suzerain.

The assistances due to the king were created, on the initiative of the General states in 1360 to pay the ransom of the king Jean the Good captive of English since the battle of Poitiers of 1356. Many subjugated provinces were repurchased some on this occasion.

The assistances continue to be perceived in the Généralité S of Alençon, Amiens, Bourges, Caen, Châlons, La Rochelle, Lyon, Moulins, Orleans, Paris, Poitiers, Rouen and Soissons, like some elections of High-Burgundy.

In the beginning each assistance was leased annually. As from 1663, they are leased in block and are included/understood in the lease of the General Ferme which often entrusts them to subcontractors.

As from 1780, Necker, anxious to like the very hostile public opinion with the General Farm, entrusts the perception of the assistances to the General Régie. The assistances are removed during the Révolution of 1789. In 1788, the assistances bring back approximately 50 million books.

The litigations relative to these taxes were judged in a Cour of the Assistances.

Assistances on food and drinks

Right of annual
Five grounds (old and new)
Equivalent of Languedoc
Large and increase
Right of the Eighth, of the fourth, subsidy and Right increase
of the inspectors in butcheries
Right of the Foot fork
Duties of Brittany
Right of gauge and broking
Right of the broker-gauges
Too drunk or Large lack

the gabelle can be comparable with a help.

Assistances on transport

the Toll S
the Tonlieu

Assistances on the not-food products

Right on the charts to play
Right on leathers
Right on the mark of irons, but money, paper, paperboard
Right on the soap

Sources

Marcel Marion, Dictionary of the institutions of France with the XVII° and XVIII° centuries , ED. A. and J. Picardy, Paris, 1923.

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