Abstract copyright UK Data Service and data collection copyright owner.The European State Finance Database (ESFD) is an international collaborative research project for the collection of data in European fiscal history. There are no strict geographical or chronological boundaries to the collection, although data for this collection comprise the period between c.1200 to c.1815. The purpose of the ESFD was to establish a significant database of European financial and fiscal records. The data are drawn from the main extant sources of a number of European countries, as the evidence and the state of scholarship permit. The aim was to collect the data made available by scholars, whether drawing upon their published or unpublished archival research, or from other published material. The ESFD project at the University of Leicester serves also to assist scholars working with the data by providing statistical manipulations of data and high quality graphical outputs for publication. The broad aim of the project was to act as a facilitator for a general methodological and statistical advance in the area of European fiscal history, with data capture and the interpretation of data in key publications as the measurable indicators of that advance. The data were originally deposited at the UK Data Archive in SAS transport format and as ASCII files; however, data files in this new edition have been saved as tab delimited files. Furthermore, this new edition features documentation in the form of a single file containing essential data file metadata, source details and notes of interest for particular files.
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The files in this dataset relate to the datafiles held in the Leicester database in the directory /rjb/forbon/.. These data draw upon F. Veronde Forbonnais, `Recherches et considerations sur les finances de France depuis l'annee 1595 jusque'a l'annee 1721', (2 vols., Basle, 1758). File Information g125fod1. Forbonnais: royal expenditure in France, 1670-1715 g125fod2. Forbonnais: royal revenues in France, 1661-1715 g125fod3. Forbonnais: French royal expenditure, 1670 g125fod4. Forbonnais: French royal expenditure, 1682 g125fod5. Forbonnais: French royal expenditure, 1684-88 g125fod6. Forbonnais: French royal expenditure, 1689-99 g125fod7. Forbonnais: French royal expenditure, 1700-07 g125fod8. Forbonnais: French royal expenditure, 1708-14 g125fod9. Forbonnais: French royal expenditure, 1715-16 g125fom1. Royal expenditure in France, 1683-1707 g125fom2. French royal expenditure during the War of the League of Augsburg, 1688-1697 g125fom3. French royal expenditure during the War of the Spanish succession, 1701-14 g125fom4.* French royal expenditure during the ministry of Desmaretz, 1708-15 Please note: this study does not include information on named individuals and would therefore not be useful for personal family history research.
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