Note 183 — Chapter VI
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This privilege rendered the financial and judicial offices hereditary, on the payment of an annual tax of one-tenth of the sum at which they had been originally purchased; and the nobility were jealous of this hereditary tenure of the most lucrative civil appointments under the Crown, all of which were thus, as a natural consequence, engrossed by the tiers-état. The paulette owed its name to Charles Paulet, who was the inventor of this extraordinary source of revenue.