Ferme générale - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The Ferme générale was, in ancien régime France, essentially a franchised customs and excise operation which collected duties on behalf of the king, under 6-year contracts. The major tax collectors in that tax farming system were known as the fermiers généraux (farmers-general in English). History...
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Alchemy
In 1868, at age 25, he was elected to the Académie Royale des Sciences based on his geology work and purchased a partial membership in the Ferme Générale, a firm empowered to collect French taxes.
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Jardin de Tivoli, Paris - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The Tivoli gardens of Paris were located at what is the current site of the Saint-Lazare station. These were several similarly named gardens, named after the gardens of Tivoli near Rome.
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1794 - Branded a traitor during the Reign of Terror by revolutionists, French chemist Antoine Lavoisier, who was also a tax collector with the Ferme Générale, was tried, convicted, and guillotined ...
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Antoine-Laurent Lavoisier
Lavoisier's many accomplishments in the field of chemistry were ultimately overshadowed by his association with the Ferme générale.
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Antoine Lavoisier
Ferme Générale. In 1768, Priestley bought into the Ferme Générale, ... In November 1793, all 32 former members of the Ferme Générale were arrested and imprisoned.
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ferment - definition of ferment in the Medical dictionary - by the ...
Definition of ferment in the Medical Dictionary. ferment explanation. Information about ferment in Free online English dictionary. What is ferment? Meaning of ferment medical term. What does ferment mean? ...
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He gave oxygen its name. He was executed as an officer of the Ferme Générale during the terror of the French Revolution (1794, he was 51). His rival and inferior, the physician and revolutionist ...
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A Tale of Two Tyrants
An example of its excesses is the execution of Lavoisier, one of twenty-eight French tax collectors, a powerful figure in the unpopular Ferme Générale.
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