page_title: Pays d'états
hierarchical_section_title: Pays d'états
context_page_description: Under the Ancien Régime, a pays d'états was a type of généralité, or fiscal and financial region where, in contrast to the pays d'election, an estates provincial or representative assembly of the three orders had retained its traditional role of negotiating the raising of taxes with the royal commissaires or intendants, dividing the tax burden by diocese and parish, and controlling tax collection. The estates also held onto part of the funds thus raised to repair and develop the roads in its province.
  According to Roland Mousnier and Bernard Barbiche the pays d'états were:
  Alsace. Estates suppressed - 17th century
  Anjou. Estates suppressed - 15th century
  Artois. Estates suppressed - 1789.
  Auvergne. Estates suppressed - 17th century
  Basse-Navarre. Estates suppressed - 1789.
  Béarn. Estates suppressed - 1789.
  Berry. Estates suppressed - 16th century
  Bigorre. Estates suppressed - 1789.
  Bourgogne. Estates suppressed - 1789.
  Bresse. Estates suppressed - 1789.
  Bretagne. Estates suppressed - 1789.
  Bugey. Estates suppressed - 1789.
  Cambrésis. Estates suppressed - 1789.
  Charolais. Estates suppressed - 1789.
  Corse. Estates suppressed - 1789.
  Dauphiné. Estates suppressed - 17th century
context_section_description: Under the Ancien Régime, a pays d'états ([pei deta]) was a type of généralité, or fiscal and financial region where, in contrast to the pays d'election, an estates provincial or representative assembly of the three orders had retained its traditional role of negotiating the raising of taxes with the royal commissaires or intendants, dividing the tax burden by diocese and parish, and controlling tax collection. The estates also held onto part of the funds thus raised to repair and develop the roads in its province.
  According to Roland Mousnier and Bernard Barbiche the pays d'états were:
  Alsace. Estates suppressed - 17th century
  Anjou. Estates suppressed - 15th century
  Artois. Estates suppressed - 1789.
  Auvergne. Estates suppressed - 17th century
  Basse-Navarre. Estates suppressed - 1789.
  Béarn. Estates suppressed - 1789.
  Berry. Estates suppressed - 16th century
  Bigorre. Estates suppressed - 1789.
  Bourgogne (Burgundy). Estates suppressed - 1789.
  Bresse. Estates suppressed - 1789.
  Bretagne (Brittany). Estates suppressed - 1789.
  Bugey. Estates suppressed - 1789.
  Cambrésis. Estates suppressed - 1789.
  Charolais. Estates suppressed - 1789.
  Corse (Corsica). Estates suppressed - 1789.
  Dauphiné. Estates suppressed - 17th century
  Flandre (Flanders). Estates suppressed - 1789.
  Foix. Estates suppressed - 1789.
  Franche-Comté. Estates suppressed - 18th century
  Gévaudan. Estates suppressed - 1789.
  Hainaut (Hainault). Estates suppressed - 1789.
  Labourd. Estates suppressed - 1789.
  Languedoc. Estates suppressed - 1789.
  Limousin. Estates suppressed - 15th century
  Mâconnais. Estates suppressed - 1789.
  Maine. Estates suppressed - 16th century
  Marche. Estates suppressed - 15th century
  Marsan. Estates suppressed - 1789.
  Nébouzan. Estates suppressed - 1789.
  Normandie (Normandy). Estates suppressed - 17th century
  Orléanais. Estates suppressed - 16th century
  Périgord. Estates suppressed - 16th century
  Provence. Estates suppressed - 1789.
  Quatre-Vallées. Estates suppressed - 1789.
  Quercy. Estates suppressed - 17th century
  Rouergue. Estates suppressed - 17th century
  Soule. Estates suppressed - 1789.
  Touraine. Estates suppressed - 16th century
  Velay. Estates suppressed - 1789.
  Vivarais. Estates suppressed - 1789.
caption: In red, the pays d'états in 1789