corvees

Any new taxes and corvees had to be approved by Julian directly rather than left to the judgment of the bureaucrats.

Julian 1st…Caesar of Rome! Past life experience… « Julian Ayrs & Pop Culture 2008

Less objectionable amusements were afforded by the corvees recreatives or gatherings at a habitant's home for some combination of work and play.

The Seigneurs of Old Canada : A Chronicle of New World Feudalism William Bennett Munro 1916

What of the corvees by which they command forced labour, of the ban de vendage, which gives them the first vintage, the banvin which enables them to control to their own advantage the sale of wine?

Scaramouche Rafael Sabatini 1912

Next to the corvees, the monster grievance of the third estate was the system of enrolments for the militia.

Diderot and the Encyclopaedists Morley, John, 1838-1923 1905

When young they serve for years as servants in his mansion; as cultivators they owe him corvees and, in certain places, three times a week.

The Ancient Regime Hippolyte Taine 1860

They would not pay a small contribution in place of the odious corvees; and they lived to see their castles demolished, and their lands sold to strangers.

Miscellaneous Writings and Speeches — Volume 2 Thomas Babington Macaulay Macaulay 1829

The oppression in agriculture, which existed before the revolution, whether from the authority of the Seigneurs, from the corvees, from tythes, game laws,

Travels in France during the years 1814-15 Comprising a residence at Paris, during the stay of the allied armies, and at Aix, at the period of the landing of Bonaparte, in two volumes. Archibald Alison 1829

The edicts, relative to the corvees and free circulation of grain, were first presented to the Parliament and registered; but those for the impot territorial, and stamp tax, offered some time after, were refused by the Parliament, which proposed a call of the States General, as alone competent to their authorization.

Memoir Correspondence And Miscellanies Jefferson, Thomas 1829

The edicts, relative to the corvees and free circulation of grain, were first presented to the Parliament and registered; but those for the import territorial, and stamp tax, offered some time after, were refused by the Parliament, which proposed a call of the States General, as alone competent to their authorization.

Autobiography 1821

The edicts, relative to the corvees and free circulation of grain, were first presented to the Parliament and registered; but those for the impot territorial, and stamp tax, offered some time after, were refused by the Parliament, which proposed a call of the States General, as alone competent to their authorization.

Memoir, Correspondence, And Miscellanies, From The Papers Of Thomas Jefferson, Volume 1 Thomas Jefferson 1784