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Until the French Revolution, the monastic community constituted a central element of the economic, social, and religious life of many localities under the Old Regime. From the end of the Wars of Religion to the French Revolution, Menat, a Cluniac abbey dating back to 1107, ruled over the Sioule Valley in the northwest region of the Clermont ...
L'Ancien Régime et la Révolution (1856) is a work by the French historian Alexis de Tocqueville translated in English as either The Old Regime and the Revolution or The Old Regime and the French Revolution. The book analyzes French society before the French Revolution, the so-called "Ancien Régime", and investigates the forces that caused ...
The French Revolution ... The causes of the revolution were a combination of social, political, and economic factors which the ancien régime ("old regime") proved ...
Steven Kreis lecture on "The Origins of the French Revolution" Notes on France and the Old Regime Archived 2018-10-04 at the Wayback Machine; Giles Constable. "The Orders of Society", chap. 3 of Three Studies in Medieval Religious and Social Thought. Cambridge–New York: Cambridge University Press, 1995, pp. 249–360.
Prior to the revolution, France 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 nobility, the Roman Catholic Church, institutions such as the judicial parlements, national and local customs and, above all, the threat of insurrection.
The Old Regime and the French Revolution. University of Chicago Readings in Western Civilization. Vol. 7. University of Chicago Press. ISBN 978-0-226-06950-0. Carlyle, Thomas (1902). The French Revolution: a History. New York: Thomas Nelson and Sons. Doyle, William (1990). The Oxford History of the French Revolution. Oxford University Press.
In France under the Ancien Régime, the Estates General (French: États généraux [eta ʒeneʁo]) or States-General was a legislative and consultative assembly of the different classes (or estates) of French subjects. It had a separate assembly for each of the three estates (clergy, nobility and commoners), which were called and dismissed by ...
Prior to the French Revolution, the Catholic Church was the official state religion of the Kingdom of France. [37] France was traditionally considered the Church's eldest daughter (French: Fille aînée de l'Église), and the King of France always maintained close links to the Pope, [38] receiving the title Most Christian Majesty from the Pope ...