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  2. Ancien régime - Wikipedia

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    The ancien régime (/ ˌ ɒ̃ s j æ̃ r eɪ ˈ ʒ iː m /; French: [ɑ̃sjɛ̃ ʁeʒim] ⓘ; lit. ' old rule ' ) was the political and social system of the Kingdom of France that the French Revolution overturned [ 1 ] through its abolition in 1790 of the feudal system of the French nobility [ 2 ] and in 1792 through its execution of the king ...

  3. Loi autorisant le divorce en France - Wikipedia

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    Loi autorisant le divorce en France was a French law introduced during the French Revolution on 20 September 1792. [1] It was the first law to allow for a modern form of divorce , in which both men and women could divorce on equal terms and remarry.

  4. Estates of the realm - Wikipedia

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    [citation needed] Under the ancien régime ("old rule/old government", i.e. before the revolution), the Second Estate were exempt from the corvée royale (forced labor on the roads) and from most other forms of taxation such as the gabelle (salt tax), and most important, the taille (France's oldest form of direct taxation). This exemption from ...

  5. Kingdom of France - Wikipedia

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    France in the early modern era was increasingly centralised; the French language began to displace other languages from official use, and the monarch expanded his absolute power in an administrative system, known as the Ancien Régime, complicated by historic and regional irregularities in taxation, legal, judicial, and ecclesiastic divisions ...

  6. French Constitution of 1791 - Wikipedia

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    The French Constitution of 1791 (French: Constitution française du 3 septembre 1791) was the first written constitution in France, created after the collapse of the absolute monarchy of the Ancien Régime. One of the basic precepts of the French Revolution was adopting constitutionality and establishing popular sovereignty.

  7. Legislative Assembly (France) - Wikipedia

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    The new divorce laws were not sexually discriminatory as both the man and woman had the right to file for a divorce—the women petitioned for the most divorce decrees. [5] The émigrés, mainly members of the nobility and public office who fled France after the events of the Revolution turned violent, were a major focus of the Legislative ...

  8. Pays d'états - Wikipedia

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    In red, the pays d'états in 1789. Under the Ancien Régime, a pays d'états (French pronunciation: [pei deta], lit. ' Land of states ') was a type of généralité, or fiscal and financial region where, in contrast to the pays d'election, an estates provincial or representative assembly of the three orders had retained its traditional role of negotiating the raising of taxes with the royal ...

  9. Fundamental laws of the Kingdom of France - Wikipedia

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    Les lois fondamentales de la monarchie française d'après les théoriciens de l'ancien régime [The fundamental laws of the French monarchy according to the theorists of the ancien régime] (dissertation). Bibliothèque des Ecoles françaises d'Athènes et de Rome. Paris: Albert Fontemoing. OCLC 1039742074. Archived from the original on 2022-12-30