 In 1604, Sully created a new tax, the or "annual tax" (1/60 of the amount of the official charge), which permitted the title-holder to be free of the 40-day rule.The and the venality of offices became key concerns in the parliamentarian revolts of the 1640s (La Fronde).The state also demanded of the church a "free gift", which the church collected from holders of eccleciastic offices through taxes called the (roughly 1/20th of the official charge, created under Francis I).