The European State Finance Database (ESFD) is an international collaborative research project for the collection of data in European fiscal history. There are no strict geographical or chronological boundaries to the collection, although data for this collection comprise the period between c.1200 to c.1815. The purpose of the ESFD was to establish a significant database of European financial and fiscal records. The data are drawn from the main extant sources of a number of European countries, as the evidence and the state of scholarship permit. The aim was to collect the data made available by scholars, whether drawing upon their published or unpublished archival research, or from other published material. The ESFD project at the University of Leicester serves also to assist scholars working with the data by providing statistical manipulations of data and high quality graphical outputs for publication. The broad aim of the project was to act as a facilitator for a general methodological and statistical advance in the area of European fiscal history, with data capture and the interpretation of data in key publications as the measurable indicators of that advance. The data were originally deposited at the UK Data Archive in SAS transport format and as ASCII files; however, data files in this new edition have been saved as tab delimited files. Furthermore, this new edition features documentation in the form of a single file containing essential data file metadata, source details and notes of interest for particular files. The files in this dataset relate to the datafiles held in the Leicester database in the directory /rjb/*.*. The data on the dixieme tax in France is discussed more fully in : R.J. Bonney, `Le secret se leurs familles: the fiscal and social limits of Louis XIV's dixieme', French History, 7, (1993). File Information g133dxd1.* Recapitulation table of total revenue from the dixieme throughout France, 1711-1715 g133dxd2.* Revenue from the dixieme in the pays d'Elections, pays d'Etats, Paris etc., 1711-1714 g133dxd3.* Dixieme: levy on the charges, 1711-1715 g133dxd4.* Dixieme: revenue from the provinces and dioceses abbonnees, 1711-1715 g133dxd5.* Dixieme 1711: pays d'elections g133dxd6.* Dixieme 1712: pays d'elections g133dxd7.* Dixieme 1713: pays d'elections g133dxd8.* Dixieme 1715, 1716, 1717: pays d'elections g133dxm1.* Dixieme 1711, 1712, 1713, 1715-1717: pays d'elections Please note: this study does not include information on named individuals and would therefore not be useful for personal family history research.