Monarchic, aristocratic, social and political system established in the Kingdom of France from approximately the 15th century until the later 18th century.
On the one side, there is an ancientregime that looks weak.
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The ancientregime, 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 ancientregime form of address.
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He wanted very much to see Versailles again; he was very fond of the ancientregime.
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It won't give them back their ancientregime.
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Always through copying the ancientregime.
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And if they decide for the knife, I shall go to the guillotine like the gayest Marquis of the ancientregime.
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The work was incomplete, I admit: we demolished the ancientregime in deeds; we were not able to suppress it entirely in ideas.
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The popular torrent, after having burst forth against the ancientregime, gradually subsided into its bed; new dykes restrained it on all sides.
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Its novelty gave to the policy of Norfolk Island the air of delirium: the disciplinarians of the ancientregime raised their hands with astonishment.
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They didn't agree about that, but that was what she liked Versailles for, that you could see the ancientregime had been swept away.
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But the ancientregime was unquestionably despotic; and in the hands of ambitious or selfish ministers, liable to be an instrument of injustice and oppression.
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Mrs. Clemens asked the young salesman for a copy of Taine's AncientRegime.
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What if the AncientRegime should return!
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Enlightened by his feudal and rural instincts, the old man at once judges both the government and the philosophers, the AncientRegime and the Revolution.
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The best book I have read-Ticknor's "Prescott," Alger's "Future Life," Furness's "Veil Partly Lifted," etc., notwithstanding-isDe Tocqueville's " AncientRegime and the Revolution."