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Wiktionary

  1. gabellenoun

    A tax; especially, the tax on salt levied in pre-Revolutionary France.

  2. Etymology: From gabelle.

Wikipedia

  1. Gabelle

    The gabelle (French pronunciation: ​[ɡabɛl]) was a very unpopular tax on salt in France that was established during the mid-14th century and lasted, with brief lapses and revisions, until 1946. The term gabelle is derived from the Italian gabella (a duty), itself originating from the Arabic word قَبِلَ (qabila, "he received"). In France, the gabelle was originally an indirect tax that was applied to agricultural and industrial commodities, such as bed sheets, wheat, spices, and wine. From the 14th century onward, the gabelle was limited and solely referred to the French crown's taxation of salt. Because the gabelle affected all French citizens (for use in cooking, for preserving food, for making cheese, and for raising livestock) and propagated extreme regional disparities in salt prices, the salt tax stood as one of the most hated and grossly unequal forms of revenue generation in the country's history. Repealed in 1790 by the National Assembly in the midst of the French Revolution, the gabelle was reinstated by Napoleon Bonaparte in 1806. It was briefly terminated and reinstated again during the French Second Republic and ultimately abolished in 1945 following France's liberation from Nazi Germany.

Webster Dictionary

  1. Gabellenoun

    a tax, especially on salt

  2. Etymology: [F. See Gabel.]

Wikidata

  1. Gabelle

    The gabelle was a very unpopular tax on salt in France before 1790. The term gabelle derives from the Italian gabella, itself from the Arabic qabala. In France, Gabelle was originally applied to taxes on all commodities, but was gradually limited to the tax on salt. In time it became one of the most hated and most grossly unequal taxes in the country. It was abolished in 1790, then reinstated by Napoleon in 1806; abolished briefly by the French Second Republic, and then finally abolished permanently in 1945. The gabelle existed outside France, even after 1790. In the 1919 Paris Treaties, Ho Chi Minh described the oppressiveness of taxes, forced labor, and exploitation that the gabelle symbolized.

Chambers 20th Century Dictionary

  1. Gabelle

    gab-el′, n. a tax, impost duty, formerly in France, esp. the tax on salt.—n. Gā′beler. [Fr. gabelle—Low L. gabella, gablum—Teut.]

The Nuttall Encyclopedia

  1. Gabelle

    an indirect tax, specially one on salt, the term applied to a State monopoly in France in that article, and the exaction in connection with which was a source of much discontent; the people were obliged to purchase it at government warehouses and at extravagant, often very unequal, rates; the impost dates from 1286; was abolished in 1789.

Dictionary of Nautical Terms

  1. gabelle

    [Fr.] An excise tribute.

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Numerology

  1. Chaldean Numerology

    The numerical value of Gabelle in Chaldean Numerology is: 4

  2. Pythagorean Numerology

    The numerical value of Gabelle in Pythagorean Numerology is: 8


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