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The two principal ways in which Louis XIV’s subjects came into contact with “his” state were through justice and taxation. Whether on a remote Provençal field, in a Norman abbey, or in a Parisian hôtel, the royal judges and tax collectors enforced the King’s will and made his presence felt to all Frenchmen in varying ways according to their social status. Ever since the first Capetians had acted as little more than lords and tenants-in-chief in the eleventh century, their justice and dues had constituted the main secular link binding governed and governor in the society.
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Ranum, O., Ranum, P. (1972). The State and French Society. In: Ranum, O., Ranum, P. (eds) The Century of Louis XIV. The Documentary History of Western Civilization. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-00497-3_5
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