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Meanings of ancient regime in inglés

ruso
ансьен-режим
portugués
antigo regime
español
antiguo régimen
catalán
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
antiguo régimen
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Examples for "ancien régime"
Examples for "ancien régime"
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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, ...
Usage of ancient regime in inglés
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On the one side, there is an ancient regime that looks weak.
The Irish Times
2
The ancient regime, so battered by the ram revolution, is more entire than is believed.
Napoleon Bonaparte
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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
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It won't give them back their ancient regime.
The Descent
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Always through copying the ancient regime.
What is Property? An Inquiry into the Principle of Right and of ...
7
And if they decide for the knife, I shall go to the guillotine like the gayest Marquis of the ancient regime.
The Letters of Franklin K. Lane, Personal and Political
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The work was incomplete, I admit: we demolished the ancient regime in deeds; we were not able to suppress it entirely in ideas.
Les Misérables
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The popular torrent, after having burst forth against the ancient regime, gradually subsided into its bed; new dykes restrained it on all sides.
History of the French Revolution from 1789 to 1814
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Its novelty gave to the policy of Norfolk Island the air of delirium: the disciplinarians of the ancient regime raised their hands with astonishment.
The History of Tasmania , Volume II
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They didn't agree about that, but that was what she liked Versailles for, that you could see the ancient regime had been swept away.
The Portrait of a Lady — Volume 2
12
But the ancient regime was unquestionably despotic; and in the hands of ambitious or selfish ministers, liable to be an instrument of injustice and oppression.
Memoirs of General Lafayette / With an Account of His Visit to A...
13
Mrs. Clemens asked the young salesman for a copy of Taine's Ancient Regime.
The Americanization of Edward Bok / The Autobiography of a Dutch...
14
What if the Ancient Regime should return!
The French Revolution - Volume 1
15
Enlightened by his feudal and rural instincts, the old man at once judges both the government and the philosophers, the Ancient Regime and the Revolution.
The Ancient Regime
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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 " Ancient Regime and the Revolution."
Autobiography and Letters of Orville Dewey, D.D. / Edited by His...