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    The ancien régime (/ˌɒ̃sjæ̃ reɪˈʒiːm/; French: [ɑ̃sjɛ̃ ʁeʒim] ; lit. 'old rule'), now a common metaphor for "a system or mode no longer prevailing", was...
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    Bourbon (a Capetian cadet branch). This corresponds to the so-called Ancien Régime ("old rule"). The territory of France during this period increased until...
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    or The Old Regime and the French Revolution. The book analyzes French society before the French Revolution, the so-called "Ancien Régime", and investigates...
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    economic or religious revolts. This period came to be referred to as the Ancien Régime retrospectively, in post-Napoleonic Switzerland. The loosely organized...
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    a combination of social, political and economic factors, which the Ancien Régime proved unable to manage. A financial crisis and widespread social distress...
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  • concealed regime indicators over any given period of time. Look up regime or regimen in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Ancien Régime Carbon audit regime Exchange...
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    18th-century France, it is also known as the Ancien Régime or Old Regime, contrasting with the "New Regime" of the Nizam-i Cedid and Tanzimat in the 19th...
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    Knecht's Catherine de' Medici, 1998: xi–xiv. Sutherland, Ancien Régime, 20. Sutherland, Ancien Régime, 26. Strage, Mark (1976). Women of Power: The Life and...
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    Parlement (category Ancien Régime)
    Under the French Ancien Régime, a parlement (French pronunciation: [paʁləmɑ̃] ) was a provincial appellate court of the Kingdom of France. In 1789, France...
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  • senior" Virelai ancien Ancien Régime Ancien Régime in France This disambiguation page lists articles associated with the title Ancien. If an internal...
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    expanded his absolute power in an administrative system, known as the Ancien Régime, complicated by historic and regional irregularities in taxation, legal...
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  • "Prince" on his grandchildren in the male and female line. During the Ancien Régime, the only substantive titles were feudal, land-based and required a...
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  • Wars and conflicts involving Switzerland since the creation of the Old Swiss Confederacy include: Military history of Switzerland Swiss Army...
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    and increasing the power and reach of the French monarchy. During the Ancien Régime over the next centuries, France transformed into a centralized absolute...
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    of eating. Rising to modest eminence in the last years of France's Ancien Régime, Brillat-Savarin had to escape into exile when the Reign of Terror began...
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    Asse (section Ancien Régime)
    continuation of its role as seat of an important judicial court under the Ancien Régime, Asse was made capital of a canton during the French Revolutionary and...
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    being seen as an aristocratic art, and therefore associated with the Ancien Régime. The emblem consists of: A wide shield with lion-head terminal bears...
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    for example in the Züriputsch of 1839. During the last years of the Ancien Régime, the growing conflicts throughout the Confederation (aristocratic cities...
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    of the modern-day embassy to the Republic of Turkey. Ambassadors of Ancien Régime France. Embassy established in Constantinople. The first ambassador...
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    The Carabiniers-à-Cheval (French for Horse Carabiniers or Mounted Carabiniers) were mounted troops in the service of France. Their origins date back to...
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    Under the Ancien Régime, the Kingdom of France was subdivided in multiple different ways (judicial, military, ecclesiastical, etc.) into several administrative...
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    first tangible proof of Deurne only dates back to 1185. During the Ancien régime Deurne was nothing more than part of the Eastern hinterland of Antwerp...
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    These guilds played a major economic role in Sion until the end of the Ancien Régime. The Inn of the White Cross opened in 1550 for merchants and wealthy...
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    wide range of acquaintances with access to the French court during the Ancien Régime period. Eventually he became the protégé of Dr. François Quesnay, the...
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    This is a chronological list of battles involving the Kingdom of France (987–1792). For pre-987 battles, see List of battles involving the Franks and Francia...
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  • Under the French Ancien Régime, royal censorship was the task of censors appointed by the chancellor to judge the editorial legitimacy of a manuscript...
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    intended to restore the proprieties, if not all the institutions, of the Ancien Régime. Exiled supporters of the monarchy returned to France but were unable...
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  • rule the Kingdom of France on behalf of the monarch during the Ancien Régime ('Old Regime'). The titles were however informal and used more as job descriptions...
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    but as well as a symbol of the system of absolute monarchy of the Ancien Régime. The earliest mention of the name of Versailles is found in a document...
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    was a de jure absolute monarchy, a system that became known as the Ancien Régime. In practice, the power of the monarchy was typically checked by the...
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