L’ exploitation fiscale des colonies américaines La ferme du Domaine d’Occident aux Iles, au Canada et en métropole (1674-1790)

Abstract

This article aims the history of the Domaine d’Occident in the American colonies united with the Crown in 1674. This study allows to appreciate the various forms of exploitation adopted by this organization between 1674 and 1790. As domanial Agent, the royal Farm of Domaine d'Occident adapted its operating procedures to local Trafficking ; it met the challenges of the Exclusif, but also of the objectives of public management. From the beginning, its activity was spread on both sides of the Atlantic, but at the end of the Old Regime it became a full-fledged tax Agent on the metropolitan side, where re-export trade was concentrated.  While drawing on the fundamental notions highlighted by the historians of the ultramarine business, the article defines the outline of tax exploitation, a concept that has hitherto been rarely discussed and yet contained in this enterprise.