... the Middle Ages. They owned 25 percent of the land in France and they, too, were taxed very lightly. They continued to enjoy certain manorial rights, that dated back to medieval times and allowed them to tax the peasantry for their own profit. They had exclusive rights to hunt and fish, village monopolies on baking bread and pressing grapes for wine, fees ... ...

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