gabelle|gabelles in English
noun
levy, tax; excise, tax levied on the manufacture or sale of a product within a country; (French History) tax imposed on salt in France and from which the aristocracy and clergy and other privileged people were exempted (tax was abolished in 1790)
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1. Gabelle is "named after the hated salt tax".
2. Since Creances enjoyed the privilege of not paying the gabelle, a good bargain until the end of Louis XIV reign, as he now required money, he abolished the privilege