Note 373 — Chapter V · POLITICAL HERESY UTILIZED BY THE STATE. (continued 3)
Reading edition
Görres, pp. 241-2, 273.—Procès, p. 482.—Buchon, pp. 513-4.—Dynteri Chron. Duc. Brabant. Lib. VI. ch. 235.
In the register of taxes every year was written opposite the names of Domremy and Greux, “Neant, la Pucelle.” The grant of nobility to her family had the very unusual clause that it passed by the female as well as the male descendants, who were thus all exempt from taxation. As matrimonial alliances extended among the rich bourgeoisie this exemption spread so far that in 1614 the financial results caused its limitation to the male lines for the future (Vallet de Viriville, Charles du Lis, pp. 24, 88).