* 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 )

* 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

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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 ).

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.

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.

France in the Ancien Régime covered a territory of around.

The Feuillants wished to keep the constitutional monarchy as it was developed by the Assemblée, the latter two favored purging France of its royal past ( Ancien Régime ), each in their own way.

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.

Most Patriots went into exile in France, while the Ancien Régime strengthened its grip on the government through the Orangist Grand Pensionary Laurens Pieter van de Spiegel.

While Louis XVI, as a constitutional king, enjoyed broad popularity among the population, his indecisiveness and conservatism led some elements of the people of France eventually to view him as a symbol of the perceived tyranny of the Ancien Régime, and his popularity deteriorated progressively.

The machine was successful as it was considered a humane form of execution, contrasting with the methods used in pre-revolutionary, Ancien Régime France.

* France – Fleur-de-lis ( Ancien Régime ), Tricolore

The feast day of Saint John the Baptist or Midsummer was a very popular event in the Ancien régime of France, and it is still celebrated as a religious feast day in several countries, like Denmark, Norway, Sweden, Finland, Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania.

* Ancien Régime in France

The arms of " France Moderne ": Azure, three fleurs-de-lis or, a simplified version of France Ancien.

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.

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Napoleon I later declared that the victory at Fontenoy prolonged the Ancien Régime monarchy in France by 30 years.

Those who wished to restore Louis XVIII of France and the < span lang =" fr "> Ancien Régime </ span > and those who would have renewed the Reign of Terror were insignificant in number.

Although the European prominence of French literature was eclipsed in part by vernacular literature in Italy in the 14th century, literature in France in the 16th century underwent a major creative evolution, and through the political and artistic programs of the Ancien Régime, French literature came to dominate European letters in the 17th century.