This was published in 1604 in Paris under the title, "Des Sauvages, ou Voyage de Sammuel Champlain de Brouage faict en la France Nouvelle, l'an mil six cens trois.
The condition of land tenure was not onerous; the "cens and rentes" paid annually were not an equivalent for value received but a simple recognition of the legal primitive right of the seigneurs, on property given.
Duplessis Mornay calls him 'le plus grand roy que la chrestiente ait porte depuis cinq cens ans;' and Sully pronounces him to be 'le plus grand de nos rois.
Their annual payment of cens et rentes rarely amounted to more than a very few dollars.
Thus the cens et rentes began to bring in a real income.
More than 400 dwellers in the seigniory still pay the annual cens et rentes.
The habitants then became tenants paying as rent the oldcens et rentes.
It was in this way that as St. Martin's day, November 11th, approached the people were reminded of the falling due of the cens et rentes.
A good many alienate the whole, excepting their small manor and their seigniorial dues, the cens and the lods et ventes, and their hunting and justiciary rights on the territory of which they were formerly proprietors.
From an old seventeenth-century print one quotes the following couplet: "De quel cote que le vent vente Marmoutier a cens et rente.
The cens et rentes made up the only payment which the seigneur received each year, but there was another which became due at intervals.
The cens et rentes were paid each year on St Martin's Day, early in November.
The rate of cens was not uniform: each seigneur was entitled to what he and the habitant might agree upon, but it never amounted to more than the merest pittance, nor could it ever by any stretch of the imagination be deemed a burden.
With the cens went the rentes, the latter being fixed in terms of money, poultry, or produce, or all three combined.
From generation to generation the light-hearted habitant cheerfully paid his dîme to the Church, his cens et rente to the Seigneur, his military service to the Governor.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "cens" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
