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Glossary abonnement: the buying-off of dues or other charges by an annual payment afflorinement: proportional tax levied by corps de la noblesse on noble land affouagement: the overall survey of the distribution of taxable land in Provence allod: an independent non-noble property which depended upon no lord; a freehold annobli: a recently ennobled person arrêt: a legal ruling arrière-fief: subordinate fief dependent on a superior feudal jurisdiction assemblée générale des communautés: general assemblies of the communities, which governed Provence 1639–1787 assesseur: chief executive/legal officer of Provence avoué: revolutionary term for a legal representative; similar to a lawyer bailliage: a bailiwick, or royal judicial district banalité: bread-baking, wine-pressing, or olive-pressing monopoly biens aliénés avec franchise des tailles en département de dettes: tax-exempted communal properties alienated by indebted communities to reimburse their creditors cahiers de doléances: lists of grievances drafted by the French population in preparation for the meeting of the Estates-General in 1789 cense: the Provençal term for the basic feudal due owed lords by their tenants cense allodiale: a perpetual payment owed by a subordinate non-noble property to a dominant non-noble property, known as an allod cense roturière: another term for cense allodiale consuls: municipal councillors contrôleur-général: chief financial official of the kingdom of France corps de la noblesse: body of noble lords claiming to represent the Provençal nobility déguerpissment: a feudal foreclosure procedure don gratuit: annual payment made by Provence to the king, literally “free gift” droit de forain: the right of absentee property-holders to pay taxes only in their place of residence droit de prélation: seigneurial right of first refusal on tenants’ real estate transactions 273 274 Glossary encadastrement: the process of evaluating tax-exempt property and inscribing it on the tax rolls feux: fiscal units, representing 5,000 livres of wealth, of which the affouagement was composed gentilshommes: nobles of established ancestry livres: French pounds pays d’élections: provinces lacking assemblies, subject to more direct royal fiscal control pays d’états: provinces governed by assemblies, enjoying an amount of fiscal autonomy pays de taille personnelle: provinces where privileged individuals enjoyed tax exemption pays de taille réelle: provinces where tax liability was attached to properties, not persons Procès des Tailles: Land-Tax Trial over issue of noble tax exemption procès-verbal: an official record of proceedings procure du pays: the permanent executive commission of Provence procureurs du pays: the members of the permanent executive commission of Provence procureurs joints: adjoint procureurs, sometimes added to the procure du pays reconnaissance: a legal act recognizing one’s subordination to a particular lordship retention: another word for droit de prélation retrait féodal: another word for droit de prélation reves: Provençal municipal entry tolls or octrois roture: the condition of non-nobility of a person or thing roturier: non-noble sénéchaussée: a royal judicial district taillabilité: the condition of being liable for the payment of taxes taille négociale: an internal tax levied within communities to pay for local improvements taille personnelle: a land tax from which nobles were exempted because of their status taille réelle: a land tax in which exemptions depended upon the legal status of property terres adjacentes: fiscally autonomous territories loosely attached to Provence tierce opposition: the right of a third party to intervene in ongoing litigation transactions: notarized agreements governing relations between lords and communities vigueries: Provençal tax districts ...