French bourgeois paying income taxes, 15th century. Magistrates collect cash from a bourgeois man and record payment in a register. Paiment de Rentes, France, XVe siecle. Miniature from a manuscript book of accounts in the Bibliotheque de Rouen. Chromolithograph by Ferdinand Sere and Auguste Racinet from Charles Louandre’s Les Arts Somptuaires, The Sumptuary Arts, Hangard-Mauge, Paris, 1858.

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