# Versailles display and peasant taille sit together as a dated inequality of court consumption versus parish levy

Date: 1682

## The fact

Versailles display and peasant taille sat together under Louis XIV. The instrument is that inequality pairing, not a modern Gini coefficient and not a 2024 exhibition. Louis XIV of France's documented role is: He spent on court and war. Parishes paid. This is not a Gini series. It is the documented pairing of display and levy.

## Context

The fiscal row stores extraction. This stores the consumption gap. Sharing intendants and courtiers is required. The setting of Versailles display and peasant taille sit together as a dated inequality of court consumption versus parish levy is the public file around 1682-12-01. Shared offices, unnamed crews, printers, or later editors may appear without becoming this instrument. Driver [income-inequality](/drivers/income-inequality) is attached because the significance names a mechanism from this act, not because a standing list needed coverage.

Later competitions, monuments, translations, UNESCO listings, museums, and adaptations are not converted into extra lifetime acts.

## Evidence and sources

Official locator: Château de Versailles — Louis XIV and the court at https://en.chateauversailles.fr/discover/history/great-characters/louis-xiv (Établissement public du château, du musée et du domaine national de Versailles). Independent locator: Britannica — Louis XIV, society and taxation neighbourhood at https://www.britannica.com/biography/Louis-XIV-king-of-France (Encyclopaedia Britannica). Official carrier: Château de Versailles — Louis XIV and the court (https://en.chateauversailles.fr/discover/history/great-characters/louis-xiv; Établissement public du château, du musée et du domaine national de Versailles). Independent carrier: Britannica — Louis XIV, society and taxation neighbourhood (https://www.britannica.com/biography/Louis-XIV-king-of-France; Encyclopaedia Britannica).

Official or archival record: Château de Versailles — Louis XIV and the court (https://en.chateauversailles.fr/discover/history/great-characters/louis-xiv; Établissement public du château, du musée et du domaine national de Versailles).

## Significance

Worsening path from Versailles display and peasant taille sit together as a dated inequality of court consumption versus parish levy on 1682-12-01. Court consumption funded by regressive levy is an income-inequality path of medium weight. The welfare reading on this path is worsening.

Confidence is stated on the impact path, not hidden in adjectives. Do not twin with the taille fiscal row as a second levy. Sign lives on the path: fisc there, inequality of display here. Mixed effects of Versailles display and peasant taille sit together as a dated inequality of court consumption versus parish levy are separate paths.

## What is established and what is not

Established: a sourced public record of Versailles display and peasant taille sit together as a dated inequality of court consumption versus parish levy under 1682-12-01 for Louis XIV of France. Established: a sourced public record of Versailles display and peasant taille sit together as a dated inequality of court consumption versus parish levy under 1682-12-01.

Shared responsibility is part of Versailles display and peasant taille sit together as a dated inequality of court consumption versus parish levy. Naming Louis XIV of France does not delete co-authors, institutions, or later transmitters. The lag from 1682-12-01 to any measured indicator is not treated as zero. Alternative explanations — weather, other armies, later statutes, or independent cultural change — remain live where the sources do not close them.

The attached driver is income-inequality. The welfare reading used in this dossier is worsening. That reading is an impact-path choice, not a property stored on the Fact itself.

If a number is not in the two records named above, it is not supplied here.

## People

- Louis XIV of France: https://factrail.ai/people/louis-xiv-of-france

## Drivers

- Income Inequality: https://factrail.ai/drivers/income-inequality

## Sources

- https://en.chateauversailles.fr/discover/history/great-characters/louis-xiv
- https://www.britannica.com/biography/Louis-XIV-king-of-France

## Methodology

https://factrail.ai/methodology

Canonical: https://factrail.ai/facts/l14-ineq-court
