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Paulette
La Paulette (after the financier Charles Paulet, who proposed it) was the name commonly given to the "annual right" (droit annuel), a special tax levied by the French Crown during the Ancien RĂ©gime. It was first instituted on December 12, 1604 by King Henry IV's minister Maximilien de BĂ©thune.
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