00:00The intendants of finance were agents of the financial administration of France under the Ancien Régime.
00:05Function
00:05The intendants organize and control the collection of royal taxes and assist the king in fiscal matters.
00:12parliaments.
00:13They rectify the king's land registers and distribute direct royal taxes in the countries of election.
00:18They exercise financial oversight of communities of inhabitants, such as towns, and of royal or clerical establishments, factories, schools,
00:26abbeys.
00:27And they take, in conjunction with the provincial intendants, all measures useful for economic progress, roads, forest management, manufacturing, training.
