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Meanings of ancien régime in English

Russian
ансьен-режим
Portuguese
antigo regime
Spanish
antiguo régimen
Catalan
antic règim a frança
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Monarchic, aristocratic, social and political system established in the Kingdom of France from approximately the 15th century until the later 18th century.

Related terms
ансьен-режим

Social organization in France from the late Middle Age (circa 15th century) until the French Revolution of 1789.

Synonyms
Examples for "ancient regime"
Examples for "ancient regime"
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On the one side, there is an ancient regime that looks weak.
The Irish Times
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The ancient regime, so battered by the ram revolution, is more entire than is believed.
Napoleon Bonaparte
3
He called her "Citizen," and she balked at the ancient regime form of address.
The new yorker
4
He wanted very much to see Versailles again; he was very fond of the ancient regime.
The Portrait of a Lady — Volume 2
5
It won't give them back their ancient regime.
The Descent
Usage of ancien régime in English
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It feels like the last days of an ancien régime.
The Guardian
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She had remained absolutely ancien régime, couldn't understand modern life and ways at all.
Chateau and Country Life in France
3
In these circumstances, the traditions of its royal family remained in the ancien régime style.
The Irish Times
4
Such liberation and exhilaration seemed unimaginable just a few weeks ago, in ancien régime Egypt.
The Guardian
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For example, under the ancien régime the bourgeois could not acquire the property of the nobles.
New York Times Current History; The European War, Vol 2, No. 2, ...
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The walls were covered with red velour; the sturdy furniture was reminiscent of the ancien régime.
The bourne ultimatum
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In Germany, as is known, the abolition of the ancien régime did not take place brusquely as in France.
New York Times Current History; The European War, Vol 2, No. 2, ...
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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.
The Guardian
9
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.
The Guardian
10
For, in France at least, the Ancien Régime was no tyranny.
The Ancien Régime
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France, he considers, is still at heart what the Ancien Régime made her.
The Ancien Régime
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The term, I believe, was invented during the Ancien Régime.
The Ancien Régime
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But the old Ancien Régime would have shuddered, did shudder, at such a notion.
The Ancien Régime
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But they possess advantages unknown to the Ancien Régime, which was, if nothing else, picturesque.
The Ancien Régime
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Had that latter been the case, the downward progress of the Ancien Régime would have been irremediable.
The Ancien Régime
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To do everything for the people, and let them do nothing for themselves-thiswas the Ancien Régime.
The Ancien Régime