Attic with salt

The attics with salt , created in 1342, are warehouses for the salt of Gabelle. They are also courts to judge the litigations on the gabelle one up to the value of a Minot (either approximately 52 liters). The higher quantities are spring of the course of the assistances.

In addition to the employees of the Firm General, the attics with salt were managed by officers:

* a president,

* a grénetier,

* a controller,

* a prosecutor of the king,

* a clerk.

Before the Revolution of 1789, there were 250 attics with salt in the countries of large gabelle and 147 in the countries of small gabelle. Beside the attics there was, until 1694, of the " rooms with sel" , simple places of sale deprived of jurisdiction, and this fact attached to a nearby attic.

In country of large gabelle, one distinguished two types of attics, the ones dits" of sale volontaire" (by far most) far away from the " frontière" with the rédimés countries, i.e. not subjected to the tax on salt; others of " impôt" , close to the border in question.

In the attics of voluntary sale, the taxable people were to buy at least a minot salt (of a capacity of 72 liters, considered to weigh 48,9 kilograms) for fourteen people of more than eight years. One spoke about " sale volontaire" because the taxpayers could buy their salt at the time which was appropriate to them, and that the poor of the spring were not held with the obligatory purchase of a given quantity of salt. In the attics of tax, an annual role was established in each parish as well as for the size, by taking account of the dimension of the family and of its supposed resources.

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