Some wanted the modern liberal constitutional system, some wanted the continuance of the Ancien Régime, some wanted independence.

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

In the 1780s his cerebral brand of history painting marked a change in taste away from Rococo frivolity toward a classical austerity and severity, heightened feeling chiming with the moral climate of the final years of the Ancien Régime.

The kings of the Ancien Régime and the July Monarchy used the title Empereur de France in diplomatic correspondence and treaties with the Ottoman emperor from at least 1673 onwards.

Adherents of most historical models identify many of the same features of the Ancien Régime as being among the causes of the Revolution.

Although the fortress had held only seven prisoners ( four forgers, two noblemen kept for immoral behavior, and a murder suspect ), the Bastille served as a potent symbol of everything hated under the Ancien Régime.

Under the Ancien Régime, the Church had been the largest single landowner in the country, owning about 10 % of the land in the kingdom.

The Assembly abolished the symbolic paraphernalia of the Ancien Régime — armorial bearings, liveries, etc.

Those who wished to restore the monarchy and the Ancien Régime by putting Louis XVIII on the throne, and those who would have renewed the Reign of Terror were insignificant in number.

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

These remained very different until a counter-movement in the 17th to 18th centuries imposed similar styles once again, mostly originating from Ancien Régime France.

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The wars ended with a Valois victory in 1453, solidifying the power of the Ancien Régime as a highly centralized absolute monarchy.

France in the Ancien Régime covered a territory of around.

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.

The Assembly abolished the symbolic paraphernalia of the Ancien Régime – armorial bearings, liveries, etc.

Under the Ancien Régime, the Church had been the largest landowner in the country.

Those who wished to restore Louis XVIII and the Ancien Régime and those who would have renewed the Reign of Terror were insignificant in number.

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Category: Legal history of the Ancien Régime

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

Category: Political history of the Ancien Régime

Category: Economic history of the Ancien Régime

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.

When it was the old capital of the Angoumois in the Ancien Régime, Angoulême was a fortified town which was highly coveted due to its position at the center of many roads important to communication, and therefore suffered many sieges.

During the French Revolution, he was seen as a victim of the Ancien Régime and restored to his position, taking part in the Battle of Groix.

From this intimate position, the Marquise de Tourzel was able to watch the disintegration of the Ancien Régime.

A provost ( introduced into Scots from French ) is the ceremonial head of many Scottish local authorities, and under the name prévôt () was a governmental position of varying importance in Ancien Regime France.

Category: Secretaries of State of Ancien Régime France

Category: Secretaries of State of Ancien Régime France

Departments were created in 1790 as a rational replacement of Ancien Régime provinces in view of strengthening national unity ; almost all of them are therefore named after rivers, mountains or coasts rather than after historical or cultural territories, unlike regions, and some of them are commonly referred to by their two-digit postal code number, which was until recently used for all vehicle registration plates.

Ultra-royalists wished for a return to the < span lang =" fr "> Ancien Régime </ span >, such as before 1789, with a view toward absolutism: domination by the nobility and " other devoted Christians ".

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

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 ").

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.

" Lycées " being organically linked to the University of France and its Faculties since their Napoleonic institution ( the " baccalauréat " was awarded by juries made of university professors ) Cousin was " crowned " in the ancient hall of the Sorbonne for a Latin oration he wrote which owned him a first prize at the " concours général ", a competition between the best pupils at " lycées " ( established under the Ancien Régime and reinstated under the First Empire, and still extant ).

Foes of both the Church and of atheism, advocating deliberate government-organized terror as a substitute for both the rule of law and the more arbitrary terror of mob violence, inheritors of a war that, at the time of their rise to power, threatened the very existence of the Revolution, the Jacobins in power completed the overthrow of the Ancien Régime and successfully defended the Revolution from military defeat.

He also attacked long-held Ancien Régime traditions such as primogeniture, accusing it of dividing the countryside into “ proletarians and colossal properties .” Later works penned by Pétion include his account of Haiti entitled "" ( 1790 ) and "" in which he chides France for its corruption.

Once the festive gathering place for the Ancien Régime society, at the start of the Bourbon Restauration in 1815, Louis XVIII traded the Hôtel de Matignon for the Élysée Palace.

Under the Ancien Régime in France, the bailli ( earlier baillis ), or bailie, was the king's chief officer in a bailiwick or bailiery ( bailliage ), serving as chief magistrate for boroughs and baronies, administrator, military organizer, and financial agent.

Efforts by Guillaume-Chrétien de Malesherbes, minister to Louis XVI, and Jean-Paul Rabaut Saint-Etienne, spokesman for the Protestant community in France, working with members of the parlement of the Ancien Régime, were particularly effective convincing the king to open French society over the concern expressed by some advisors.

Unfortunately for French monarchism, Chambord's refusal to accept the Tricolor as the flag of France and to abandon the fleur-de-lys, symbol of the Ancien régime, made restoration impossible until after his death in 1883, by which time the monarchists had long since lost their parliamentary majority due to the 16 May 1877 crisis.

The organization under the Ancien Régime of the competition for the Grand Prix de Rome in architecture, offering a chance to study in Rome, imprinted its codes and aesthetic on the course of instruction, which culminated during the Second Empire ( 1850 – 1870 ) and the Third Republic that followed.

However, some traditionalist Catholic groups, such as the Society of St. Pius X, push for the return to the Ancien Régime or at least pre-separation situation, contending that France has forgotten its divine mission as a Christian country ( an argument already upheld by the Ultras presenting the 1825 Anti-Sacrilege Act ).

The two of them refurnished the Hôtel, which once again became a festive gathering place for the Ancien Régime society and a hotbed of opposition.

Thus, monarchists supporters of the Ancien Régime following the French Revolution were counterrevolutionaries, for example the Revolt in the Vendée and the monarchies that put down the various Revolutions of 1848.

Whereas the Ancien Régime had allowed for regional privileges, the new order did not allow for such autonomy.

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 Ferme générale was thus one of the institutions of Ancien Régime which were most highly criticized during the French Revolution and were depicted as birds of prey and tyrants ; the Girondist Antoine Français de Nantes, for one, made an early reputation for himself attacking this prominent target.

Saint-Domingue was also wracked by conflict between the white colonists and free people of colour ( many of whom were of mixed race ), and also between those supportive of the French Revolution and those for a re-establishment of the Ancien Régime — or failing that, for Saint-Domingue's independence.