* 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: 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

Ancien Regime and the French Revolution ( 1856 ; 2008 edition ) 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 ).

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

They opened trading posts and engaged in the " trade :" – a term which, under the Ancien Régime, means any type of trade ( wheat, pepper ivory …), and not necessarily, or only the slave trade, although this " infamous traffic ", as it was called at the end of the 18th century, was indeed at the heart of a new economic order, controlled by powerful companies in privilege.

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.

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

* Ancien Corps de garde – 1575 ( German Renaissance )

* Ancien Hôpital – 1736 – 1744 ( French Classicism )

French historians of the first half of the 19th century like the politician and man of letters François Guizot ( 1787 – 1874 ), historian François Mignet ( published Histoire de la Révolution française in 1824 ), and famous philosopher Alexis de Tocqueville ( L ’ Ancien Régime et la Révolution, 1856 ) established and wrote in this tradition.

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.

The Third Republic ( 1871 – 1940 ), dominated the nation until the 16 May 1877 crisis by the Catholic Legitimists who dreamed of a return to the Ancien Régime.

* François de Candie, 1st Vice-Count of Geneva, " Ancien Vidam de Genéve ", ( c. 1314 – 1360 ), nobleman and military commander of the Royal Guard of Savoy

He was replaced by Louis-Philippe, who named himself " King of the French ", rather than the standard " King of France " – an indication that he answered more to the nascent bourgeoisie than the aristocratic Ancien Régime.

* 1936 – Prime Minister of Greece Ioannis Metaxas suspends parliament and the Constitution and establishes the 4th of August Regime.

The Regime of Marshall Mobutu Sese Seko lasted 32 years ( 1965 – 1997 ), during which all but the first seven years the country was named Zaire.

* 1967 – Constantine II of Greece attempts an unsuccessful counter-coup against the Regime of the Colonels

** MacCaffrey Wallace T. The Shaping of the Elizabethan Regime: Elizabethan Politics, 1558 – 1572 ( 1969 )

The Franco Regime, 1936 – 1975.

The French Revolution and the Creation of Modern Political Culture ( Oxford, 1987 – 94 ) vol 1: The Political Culture of the Old Regime, ed.

* Blanning, T. C. W. The Culture of Power and the Power of Culture: Old Regime Europe 1660 – 1789 ( 2003 )

The Vichy Regime – led by Philippe Pétain, the aging war hero of the First World War – was originally intended to be a temporary, care-taker regime, to supervise French administration before the soon-expected defeat of Britain.

Old Regime France: 1648 – 1788 ( 2001 ) excerpt and text search

The political terms Left and Right were coined during the French Revolution ( 1789 – 1799 ), referring to the seating arrangement in the Estates General: those who sat on the left generally supported the radical changes of the revolution, including the creation of a republic and secularization, while those on the right were supportive of the traditional institutions of the Old Regime.

* 1973 – George Papadopoulos, head of the military Regime of the Colonels in Greece, is ousted in a hardliners ' coup led by Brigadier General Dimitrios Ioannidis.

*** 1963 – After the overthrow of the Diem Regime in early November 1963, U. S. President John F. Kennedy increased the number of U. S. military advisers from 800 to more than 16, 000 to cope with rising guerrilla activity in Vietnam.

The Pol Pot Regime: Race, Power, and Genocide in Cambodia under the Khmer Rouge, 1975 – 1975.

The group's name, 17N, refers to the final day of the 1973 Athens Polytechnic uprising, in which a protest against the Greek Military Junta ( 1967 – 1974 ), also known as the Regime of the Colonels took place.

* M. S. Anderson, War and Society in Europe of the Old Regime, 1618 – 1789.

According to the Prelude to Dune prequel trilogy ( 1999 – 2001 ) by Brian Herbert and Kevin J. Anderson, Duncan Idaho is born on the planet Giedi Prime, under the Harkonnen Regime.

At some times, particularly under the nationalist 4th of August Regime under Ioannis Metaxas of 1936 – 1941, Greek state institutions followed a policy of actively discouraging and repressing the use of Arvanitika.

* Greek Military Junta ( 1967 – 1974 ), also known as The Regime of the Colonels

During the period of the 4th of August Regime ( 1936 – 1941 ), the labrys was used as the main symbol of the regime-sponsored National Organisation of Youth ( EON ), as its leader, Ioannis Metaxas believed the symbol to be the first symbol of all Hellenic civilizations.

Short Oxford History of France – Old Regime France.