Search results
Results from the WOW.Com Content Network
The Ancien Regime: A History of France 1610–1774 (1999), political survey ISBN 0-6312-1196-9; Lindsay, J.O. ed. The New Cambridge Modern History, Vol. 7: The Old Regime, 1713-1763 (1957) online; Lynn, John A. The Wars of Louis XIV, 1667–1714 (1999) ISBN 0-5820-5629-2; Mayer, Arno (2010) [1981]. The Persistence of the Old Regime: Europe to ...
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 Ancien Régime, and investigates the forces that caused the Revolution ...
The Ancien Régime [a] also known as the Old Regime, was the political and social system of the Kingdom of France from the Late Middle Ages (c. 1500) until 1789 and the French Revolution [7] which abolished the feudal system of the French nobility (1790) [8] and hereditary monarchy (1792). [9]
The Ancien Régime, a French term rendered in English as "Old Rule", or simply "Former Regime", refers primarily to the aristocratic, social and political system of early modern France under the late Valois and Bourbon dynasties.
The Ancien Regime: A History of France, 1610–1774 (1998). Pillorget, René and Suzanne Pillorget. France Baroque, France Classique 1589-1715. (In French) Collection: Bouquins. Paris: Laffont, 1995. ISBN 2-221-08110-2. Saint-Bonnet, François. "Le contrôle a posteriori : les parlements de l'Ancien Régime et la neutralisation de la loi".
Ancien Régime dioceses all disappeared, then, in 1790. Many former bishoprics remained heads of the new dioceses, but many cities lost their bishop. Even so, in those cities, the former cathedral very often kept its rank as a cathedral church. This explains why many post-Revolutionary episcopal sees bear the name of several cities.
People executed by the Ancien Régime in France (5 C, 16 P) F. Foreign relations of the Ancien Régime (3 C, 6 P) French suo jure nobility (2 C, 120 P) L.
The term Grand Conseil (French pronunciation: [ɡʁɑ̃ kɔ̃sɛj]) or Great Council refers two different institutions during the Ancien Régime in France. It also is the name of parliaments in several Swiss cantons.