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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 King Louis ...
Under the French Ancien Régime, a parlement (French pronunciation: [paʁləmɑ̃] ⓘ) was a provincial appellate court of the Kingdom of France.In 1789, France had 13 parlements, the original and most important of which was the Parlement of Paris.
Because of its location and history, the Parlement of Paris was the most significant. The Parlement of Paris was established under Philip IV of France [1] in 1302. The Parlement of Paris would hold sessions inside the medieval royal palace on the Île de la Cité, which today is the site of the Paris Hall of Justice. [2]
For several of these parishes, which did not exist under the Ancien Régime—such as Saint-Ambroise, Saint-François d'Assise, Saint-Germain-des-Prés, or Notre-Dame—the registers began in 1791. Starting dates of Paris parish registers
Recettes générales, commonly known as généralités (French pronunciation: [ʒeneʁalite] ⓘ), were the administrative divisions of France under the Ancien Régime and are often considered to prefigure the current préfectures. At the time of the French Revolution, there were 36 généralités.
17th-century engraving of the Grand Châtelet Flood levels at the pont Wilson at Tours in both metres and pied royal. These definitions use the Paris definitions for the coutume of Paris, [3] and definitions for other Ancien régime civil jurisdictions varied, at times quite significantly.
The government of the Ancien Régime attempted to silence a growing political unrest. [4] In an attempt to rid society of the disruption caused by "honnêtes hommes," the lieutenant-general of police, Marc-Pierre de Voyer de Paulmy d'Argenson, tried to control the behaviour of spectators in theatres. [5]
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 ...