Monarchic, aristocratic, social and political system established in the Kingdom of France from approximately the 15th century until the later 18th century.
Social organization in France from the late Middle Age (circa 15th century) until the French Revolution of 1789.
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Examples for "ancient regime"
Examples for "ancient regime"
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On the one side, there is an ancient regime that looks weak.
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The ancient regime, so battered by the ram revolution, is more entire than is believed.
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He called her "Citizen," and she balked at the ancient regime form of address.
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He wanted very much to see Versailles again; he was very fond of the ancient regime.
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It won't give them back their ancient regime.
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It feels like the last days of an ancien régime.
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She had remained absolutely ancien régime, couldn't understand modern life and ways at all.
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In these circumstances, the traditions of its royal family remained in the ancien régime style.
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Such liberation and exhilaration seemed unimaginable just a few weeks ago, in ancien régime Egypt.
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For example, under the ancien régime the bourgeois could not acquire the property of the nobles.
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The walls were covered with red velour; the sturdy furniture was reminiscent of the ancien régime.
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In Germany, as is known, the abolition of the ancien régime did not take place brusquely as in France.
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Pure by Andrew Miller This 2011 novel folds the corruption of the ancien régime into the corruption of Les Innocents Cemetery in Paris.
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They are the latest in a long line of Britons to have left this country with the ambition of living in an Islamist ancien régime.
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For, in France at least, the Ancien Régime was no tyranny.
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France, he considers, is still at heart what the Ancien Régime made her.
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The term, I believe, was invented during the Ancien Régime.
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But the old Ancien Régime would have shuddered, did shudder, at such a notion.
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But they possess advantages unknown to the Ancien Régime, which was, if nothing else, picturesque.
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Had that latter been the case, the downward progress of the Ancien Régime would have been irremediable.
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To do everything for the people, and let them do nothing for themselves-thiswas the Ancien Régime.