porteur de contraintes
French
Etymology
Originally shortening of full legal title "huissier porteur de contrainte des gabelles", with "contrainte des gabelles" referring to the notice of execution issued against a taxpayer.[1]
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /pɔʁ.tœʁ də kɔ̃.tʁɛ̃t/
Noun
porteur de contraintes m (plural porteurs de contraintes)
- (historical, France) An individual responsible for delivering a prosecution notice against a negligent taxpayer prescribing an immediate execution.
- 1901, Adolphe Orain, Contes de l’Ille-et-Vilaine, page 207:
- C’était un bien drôle de petit homme que le père Langevin, tailleur et porteur de contraintes au Grand-Fougeray.
- He was quite an odd little man, that Father Langevin, mason and "porteur de contraintes" in Grand-Fougeray
See also
References
- Lenglet, Dominique (2021 July) “Porteur de contraintes”, in A la recherche du temps perdu.... (in French):
- Créé sous Louis XIV au départ l’appellation exacte est "huissier porteur de contrainte des gabelles"
- Created by Louis XIV, initially the exact title was "huissier porteur de contrainte des gabelles"
Further reading
- “contrainte”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
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