The present state of France containing a general description of that kingdom corrected and purged from the many gross mistakes in the French copy, enriched with additional observations and remarks of the new compiler, and digested into a method conformable to that of the state of England / by R.W. ...

CHAP. XLIV.

Of the Generalities of France.

THE Generalities are the general Offices of the Treasurers General of France, established for the facilitating the receiving and levying of the Monies arising from Taxes, and other Impositions, called by the name of Taillons, or lesser Taxes, and subsistance Money: They are in number twenty three in all, viz. Seventeen that are divided into Elections, and six of the Countries, governed by their peculiar Assemblies of Estates, which are not

divided into Elections, but Assemble their own Estates, something like the Parliaments of England, to impose and assess the summ the King Demands, and afterwards levy it themselves, and transmit it to the Treasure Royal.

The seventeen Generalities of the Provinces of Election, with their several Elections, are as follows.

• 1. The Generality of Paris contains 20 Electi∣ons, and 1904 Parishes.
• 2. That of Orleans, 12 Elections, and 1148 Parishes.
• 3. Of Noulins, 9 Elections, and 1170 Parishes.
• 4. Of AlenÇon, 9 Elections, and 1276 Parishes.
• 5. Of Chaalons, 11 Elections, and 2294 Parishes.
• 6. Of Soissons, 7 Elections, and 1088 Parishes.
• 7. Of Roüen, 12 Elections, and 1623 Parishes.
• 8. Of Caen, 9 Elections, and 1008 Parishes.
• 9. Of Limoges, 7 Elections, and 1268 Parishes.
• 10. Of Poitiers, 9 Elections, and 1164 Parishes.
• 11. Of Bourges, 4 Elections, and 566 Parishes.
• 12. Of Riom in Auvergne, 8 Elections, and 827 Parishes.
• 13. Of Bourdeaux, 9 Elections, and 2995 Pa∣rishes.
• 14. Of Montauban, 11 Elections, and 951 Pa∣rishes.
• 15. Of Amiens, 6 Elections, and 1260 Parishes.
• 16. Of Tours, 16 Elections, and 1539 Parishes.
• 17. Of Lyons, 5 Elections, and 865 Parishes.

The Generalities of the Countries governed by Estates, are

1. The Generality of Nantes for Brittany, in which no number of Parishes is specified.

2. Of Nontpelier, which is divided into 11 Dio∣cesses, instead of Elections, and contains 1466

Parishes; in it are three particular Receivers.

3. Of Toulouze, which besides the Town, in which there is a particular Receiver, is divided into 11 Diocesses, which have each of them three particu∣lar Receivers, and contain 1013 Parishes.

4. Of Dijon, in which are 1761 Parishes.

5. Of Grenoble, which has six Elections, and one particular receiving Office at Briancon, and con∣tains 604 Parishes.

6. Of Aix, in which are 17 little Governments, called Vigueries, and 644 Parishes, and three par∣ticular Receivers of the Rents of the Crown-Lands, reckoning in that of Cisteron, and the particular Receiver of the Rents of the Crown-Lands, at Aix.