In the countries where the personal taille takes place, the farmer is commonly assessed in proportion to the stock which he appears to employ in cultivation.
In some countries, this tax was confined to the lands which were held in property by an ignoble tenure; and, in this case, the taille was said to be real.
Such reimpositions are always over and above the taille of the particular year in which they are laid on.
Should any stock happen to accumulate in the hands of a French farmer, the taille is almost equal to a prohibition of its ever being employed upon the land.
This additional tax is rated upon all the different districts subject to the taille according to the old assessment.
In France, that part of the taille which is charged upon the industry of workmen and day-labourers in country villages, is properly a tax of this kind.
In the greater part of those provinces of France, which are called the countries of elections, the taille is of this kind.
La taille des hommes est plus haute (than that of the Chilians), et leurs muscles mieux prononcés.
And the amount of taille paid is made the basis for the amortization.
In the same year Jacques de la Taille wrote his treatise, La Maniere de faire des Vers en francois comme en grec et en latin, but it was not published until 1573, eleven years after his death.
The movement then passed into France; and classical metres were adopted by Baif in practice, and defended by Jacques de la Taille in theory.
Jean de la Taille was indebted for this to Castelvetro, who two years before had stated them thus, "La mutatione tragica non puo tirar con esso seco se non una giornata e un luogo.
In 1572 Jean de la Taille refers his readers to what "the great Aristotle in his Poetics, and after him Horace though not with the same subtlety, have said more amply and better than I.
But curiously enough, Jean de la Taille differs entirely from Grevin, and asserts positively that France had as yet no real tragedies, except possibly a few translated from the classics.
Behind it was another escarpment, even stronger, the Taille l'Abbé.
On the 8th it conquered the Naza positions, its right coming up even with the Taille l'Abbé.
It was to be a day of such retribution for the 82nd as the 28th had had in the taking of the Taille l'Abbé; hills and woods are the landmarks of divisional histories in this battle.
This process of infiltration had bent a shepherd's crook around the Taille l'Abbé.
The 28th had sworn that it would not leave the valley until it had taken the Taille l'Abbé.
The left regiment was again to attack the Taille l'Abbé.
Account of the mode of rectifying the inequalities of the predial taille in the generality of Montauban, 352.
Montauban, the inequalities in the predial taille in that generality, how rectified, 352.
Daddy Taille blew his nose with the noise of a trombone, and old Touchard brandished a whole loaf half over the table, and the cook shed silent tears on the crust which she was still holding.
Taille was moved to tears in his turn and said several times: "That is right, dear, that is right.
There were two tailles: la taille seigneuriale, a contribution paid by serfs to their lord; and la taille royale, paid by the third estate to the King.
Taille was moved to tears in his turn and said several times: "That is right, dear; that is right.
Jacques de la Taille at a very early age wrote a Darius and an Alexander, besides a Didon, which is lost.
The brothers La Taille also, like Grevin, are chiefly known as dramatists.
People who paid no taillewere assessed according to their public office, military rank, business, or profession.
The exemption of the upper orders from liability to the taille clung to that tax after the reason for such freedom had ceased to exist.
There was another burden which shared with the taille and the gabelle the especial hatred of the French peasantry.
Over the greater part of France, however, the taille réele did not exist, and only the taille personelle was in force.
But the taille had still to be apportioned among the inhabitants.
The assessment and collection of thetaille presented many anomalies.
The taille was of feudal origin, and in the Middle Ages was paid to the lord by his tenants.
In the provinces which hold assemblies, where the taille would seem to be more justly apportioned, the like inequality is found.
The receivers of the taille and of the taxes add one-half each year in expenses above the tax.
Footnote 6503: The provincial assembly carries this amount to one-eleventh of the tailleand accessories combined.
Hence, "the horror of the taille depopulates the rural districts, concentrating in the towns all the talents and all the capital[5254].
In Bourbonnais the taille was formerly serf and the serfs mainmortable.
Each year, the élus and their collectors, exercising arbitrary power, fix the taille of the parish and of each inhabitant.
Taille Il est de taille à se défendre = He is big enough to defend himself.
We, being directly subject to the King, pay la taille royale.
This rod, as you know, is the taille stick, and in July comes the tax which I must collect from Domremy and Greux.
Anyhow, a more systematic method of faceting in sixteen facets--the taille en seize--began to be employed about that time.
Silver-gilt decorations of the mitre: comprising two quatrefoils set with turquoises, two rosettes set with pastes, and hinged bands of brasse-taille enamel set with pearls and crystals.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "taille" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
