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of the property's name or title and were henceforth assumed to be noble if they could find a way to be exempted from paying the [[taille]] to which only commoners were subject. Moreover, non-nobles who owned noble fiefs were obliged to pay a special tax franc-fief on the property to the noble liege-lord.

Proofs of nobility

Henry IV began to enforce the law against usurpation of nobility, and in 1666-1674 Louis XIV

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