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The Kingdom of France in the early modern period, from the Renaissance (c. 1500–1550) to the Revolution (1789–1804), was a monarchy ruled by the House of Bourbon (a Capetian cadet branch). This corresponds to the so-called Ancien Régime ("old rule").
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 King Louis ...
The French Renaissance was the cultural and artistic movement in France between the 15th and early 17th centuries. The period is associated with the pan-European [ 1 ] Renaissance , a word first used by the French historian Jules Michelet to define the artistic and cultural "rebirth" of Europe.
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The administrative and social structures of the Ancien Régime were the result of years of state-building, legislative acts (like the Ordinance of Villers-Cotterêts), internal conflicts and civil wars, but they remained a confusing patchwork of local privilege and historic differences until the French Revolution brought about a radical ...
The Ancien Régime was ruled by the late Valois and Bourbon dynasties. Much of the medieval political centralization of France had been lost in the Hundred Years' War , and the Valois Dynasty's attempts at re-establishing control over the scattered political centres of the country were hindered by the Wars of Religion ).
The French Renaissance — the European Northern Renaissance period of the 15th, 16th, and 17th centuries in the Kingdom of France The main article for this category is French Renaissance . Subcategories
Ancien Régime (481–1791) Royal Council : Council of State (13th c.–1790) separate from the Conseil des affaires (later, Conseil d'en haut) (16th c.–1792) Kingdom of France (481–1792) Feudal monarchy: 1 Jun 987 – 14 May 1610 [f] Feudal monarchy (987–1610) Absolutism: 14 May 1610 – 14 Sep 1791 [g] Absolutism (1610–1791)