farmer-general
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farmers-general
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Origin of farmer-general
1705–15; translation of French fermier-général
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Monsieur P-, the farmer-general, was just as inquisitive about our taxes.
From A Sentimental Journey Through France and Italy by Laurence Sterne
We have proved to your Lordships that in his character of farmer-general he availed himself of the influence derived from commanding a battalion of soldiers.
From The Works of the Right Honourable Edmund Burke, Vol. 11 (of 12) by Edmund Burke
The same officers also attached their own boxes for the receipt of customs to the gates, in lieu of those of the farmer-general.
From Architectural Antiquities of Normandy by John Sell Cotman
At the age of twenty-three, at the queen’s request, he was appointed farmer-general, a post of great responsibility and dignity worth a 100,000 crowns a year.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 13, Slice 3 "Helmont, Jean" to "Hernosand" by Various
She declared that the farmer-general had carried to his house at Passy a number of bags filled with gold and silver and that those bags had disappeared a few days before the arrest.
From The Confessions of Arsène Lupin by Maurice Leblanc
Antoine Laurent Lavoisier was born in Paris in 1743, the son of one of the "farmers-general."
From Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 59, No. 368, June 1846 by Various
The budgets usually showed deficits, and the imposts of all kinds were raised by tyrannical farmers-general.
From The Psychology of Revolution by Gustave Le Bon
It is they who were farmers-general, collectors, and officials of all kinds.
From In the Reign of Terror by G. A. (George Alfred) Henty
Those would be thought the natural, proper farmers-general of each district.
From The Works of the Right Honourable Edmund Burke, Vol. 10 (of 12) by Edmund Burke
Decreed, that all property real and personal of the farmers-general shall belong to the nation.
From Historical Epochs of the French Revolution With The Judgment And Execution Of Louis XVI., King Of France And A List Of The Members Of The National Convention, Who Voted For And Against His Death by Francis Randolph
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