social
internal improvement of infrastructure, codified laws
Abolished
Maupeou
Parlements
and Restored
Parlement of Paris
(Old Parliament)
poll tax
&
dixième
"après moi
le déluge"
Louis XIV
taille
economical
internal improvments, trained officialdom
tax "reform"
vingtième
Louis XV
start of failure of France
Religion
Maupeou Parlements
curtailed independence of church and nobles
codified laws, repressed provincial autonomy, localism
Enlightened Despotism
Enlightened Despotism in France
political
Louis XVI
Made Reforms Impossible
toleration of religion (but against Jesuits)
Secular
Attitude
"Turgot"
suppressed guilds
favored legal toleration of Protestants
abolished royal corvee
allowed
greater freedom to the internal commerce in grain