What Lessons for Economic Development Can We Draw from the Champagne Fairs?

Table 1:

Total Yield of the Taxes Levied at the Champagne Fairs, c. 1275-1341 (in livres tournois)

Source: Bourquelot (1867), II: 199 with note 1, except Provins May fair 1320. Lefèvre (1858), 446, reports slightly different figures (see notes).

Notes

^a For 1275, 1296, 1298-9, 1310, and unknown date before tax rise, excluded fair is Lagny; for 1340-1 it is Provins May fair.

^b Lefèvre (1858), 446, reports 1000-1053.

^c Lefèvre (1858), 446, reports 1084.

^d Figures for this year have been rounded to the nearest full livre.

^e Lefèvre (1858), 446, reports 1368.

^f Lefèvre (1858), 446, reports 1225.

^g Lefèvre (1858), 446, reports 1140.

^h Lefèvre (1858), 446, reports 400.

ⁱ Terrasse (2005), 256 n. 407.

^j Lefèvre (1858), 446, reports 517, probably by including sealing-fees.

^k Lefèvre (1858), 446, reports 480, probably by including sealing-fees.

^l Lefèvre (1858), 446, reports 360, as does Alengry (1915), 86.

^m Lefèvre (1858), 446, reports 596, probably by including sealing-fees.

ⁿ Source is document written c. 1310 comparing fair yield in that year with unknown previous period ‘before merchants repairing to the fairs of Champagne heard anyone
speak of the denier in the livre, or the quarter-denier of brokerage, or the maletouste’. These new taxes were introduced in 1292-6 (see Bourquelot (1865), II: 192-3).

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