* 1802 – Napoleon Bonaparte signs a general amnesty to allow all but about one thousand of the most notorious émigrés of the French Revolution to return to France, as part of a reconciliary gesture with the factions of the Ancien Regime and to eventually consolidate his own rule.

The Ancien Regime, 1600 – 1750 ( 1974 )

The Ancien Regime: A History of France 1610 – 1774 ( 1999 ), survey by leader of the Annales School excerpt and text search

* April 26 – A general amnesty signed by Napoleon Bonaparte allows all but about 1, 000 of the most notorious émigrés of the French Revolution to return to France, as part of a reconciliary gesture to make peace with the various factions of the Ancien Regime that ultimately consolidates his own rule.

Perhaps the most accessible source for the near-original meaning of ideology is Hippolyte Taine's work on the Ancien Regime ( the first volume of " Origins of Contemporary France ").

In continuation of its role as seat of an important judicial court under the Ancien Regime Asse was made capital of a canton during the French Revolutionary and Napoleonic Period.

Indeed the period saw the triumph of the pure trouser, or pantaloon, over the cullottes or knee-breeches of the Ancien Regime.

In 1814, following the collapse of the Napoleonic Act of Mediation, Nidwalden attempted to return to the Ancien Regime government, with subject lands belonging to the canton.

For more on French government administration during the Old Regime, see Ancien Régime in France.

Under the Ancien Regime, the Duke of Burgundy was the premier lay peer of the kingdom of France.

During the Ancien Regime of the early colonial era, these communities had their own parish churches, many of which still exist.

Though much of the West Island is today a vast low-density modern suburban development, most of the principal roads were developed in the 17th and 18th centuries, inasmuch as land division follows examples common to the Ancien Regime.

In an attempt to restore the kingdom's finances by the English method of taxing the rich and privileged ( nobility and church were exempt from taxes in the Ancien Regime ).

* John Rothney, " The Brittany Affair and the Crisis of the Ancien Regime " ( London, 1969 )

Royal meals were a public spectacle in Ancien Regime France: members of the royal family usually had their midday meal in full view of strolling sightseers who watched in awe from a gallery, with each course loudly announced by the chamberlains.

In the 1820s, Saint-Gobain continued to function as it had under the Ancien Regime, manufacturing high-quality mirrors and glass for the luxury market.

The Ancien Régime, a French term rendered in English as " Old Rule ", " Old Kingdom ", or simply " Old Regime ", refers primarily to the aristocratic, social and political system established in France from ( roughly ) the 15th century to the 18th century under the late Valois and Bourbon dynasties.

Ancien Regime ( 1989 )

The Ancien Regime: A History of France 1610-1774 ( 1999 ), political survey excerpt and text search

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.

However, following the French success in the War of the First Coalition ( 1792 – 1797 ) against the aristocratic armies of Prussia and Austria, the time had come for direct action against the aristocratic Ancien Regime in Switzerland.

The Act of Mediation was Napoleon's attempt at a compromise between the Ancien Regime and a Republic.

The phenomenon of the précieuses in establishing French literary classicism was first revived, in an atmosphere of nostalgia for the douceurs de vivre of the Ancien Regime and the aristocratic leisure of its authoresses, by Louis Roederer, in his Mémoires pour servir à l ' histoire de la société polie en France ( 1838 ).

Under the Ancien Régime, French society was divided into three estates (" États " in French ).

In the 18th century, writers of the Enlightenment wrote about feudalism to denigrate the antiquated system of the Ancien Régime, or French monarchy.

The French now celebrate 14 July each year as a symbol of the shift away from the Ancien Régime to a more modern, democratic state.

* Under the French Ancien Régime, it was of habit to " plant a May " or a " tree of May " in the honor of somebody.

In the 1780s, the economic crisis and the crisis of the Ancien Régime struck Normandy as well as other parts of the nation, leading to the French Revolution.

In Ancien Régime France, a nom de guerre ( a French phrase meaning " war name ") would be adopted by each new recruit ( or assigned to him by the captain of his company ) as he enlisted in the French army.

The standard of the French royal family under the Early Modern France | Ancien Régime and the Bourbon Restoration | restoration period.

The political terms Right and Left were coined during the French Revolution ( 1789 – 99 ), and referred to where politicians sat in the French parliament ; those who sat to the right of the chair of the parliamentary president were broadly supportive of the institutions of the monarchist Ancien Régime.

Napoleon was responsible for overthrowing multiple Ancien Régime-type monarchies in Europe and spreading the official values of the French Revolution to other countries.

During the Ancien Régime, French baronies were very much like Scottish ones.

Category: Ancien Régime French architecture

Category: Ancien Régime French architecture

Category: Ancien Régime French architecture

The departmental capital, Versailles, which grew up around Louis XIV's château, was also the French capital for more than a century under the Ancien Régime and again between 1871 and 1879 during the early years of the Third Republic.

Even before the late 18th-19th century, " metropolitan France " was largely a patchwork of local customs and regional differences that the unifying aims of the Ancien Régime and the French Revolution had only begun to work against, and today's France remains a nation of numerous indigenous and foreign languages, of multiple ethnicities and religions, and of regional diversity that includes French citizens in Corsica, Guadeloupe, Martinique and elsewhere around the globe.

By the end of the 16th century, from 1602 onwards, during the entire Ancien Régime, all feudal rights of Oostmalle belonged to the family van Renesse ( French: de Renesse ), descendants of Jan van Renesse.

The invasion of Switzerland by French troops in 1798 lead to the downfall of this Ancien Régime.

In addition, Louis XVI's cousin, the Prince de Condé, arrived and formed an army of young aristocrats willing to fight the French Revolution and restore the Ancien Régime.