"Ancien régime" is now a common metaphor for "a system or mode no longer prevailing". The administrative and social structures of the ancien régime in...

were among the highest dignitaries of the French monarchy during the Ancien Régime. Being thirty in total, the Councillors of State included three clergymen...

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

[taj]) was a direct land tax on the French peasantry and non-nobles in Ancien Régime France. The tax was imposed on each household and was based on how much...

seigneur of Saint-Maurice, Vaux, and Chassy, and a politician under the ancien régime. From 1743 to 1757, he was the Prévot des Marchands (Provost of Merchants...

kɔ̃sɛj]) or Great Council refers two different institutions during the Ancien Régime in France. It also is the name of parliaments in several Swiss cantons...

in 1743 and to the Académie des Inscriptions in 1751. He was made conseiller d’État in 1762 and prévôt des marchands de Paris in 1764. The scholar Dupuy...

administrative and governmental apparatus around the King of France during the Ancien Régime designed to prepare his decisions and to advise him. It should not be...

to the "arrêts de règlement" characteristic of the Parlements of the Ancien Régime, as contrary to the idea that only the law prevails. In 1801 he was...

[ʒeneʁalite] ), were the administrative divisions of France under the Ancien Régime and are often considered to prefigure the current préfectures. At the...

buildings, opening avenues and creating a public garden. He was made conseiller d'État in 1757. Tourny avenues (Périgueux) L'intendant Tourny 1695-1760 by...

Louis Ardier (died 1676), seigneur de Vineuil, secretary to the king, Conseiller d'État, involved in the Fronde and mentioned by Bussy-Rabutin in his Histoire...

defected, meaning the amendment was rejected. In 1821 he was made Conseiller d'État and director of naval personnel. Soon afterwards he was put in command...

remained so until the coup d'état of 18 Fructidor when he was excluded from the council. He was elected a member of the Conseil d'État on 24 December 1799....

intendants or agents of France's financial administration under the Ancien Régime. The role of intendant des finances was created in 1552 as a 'commission'...

historique des régens, premiers ministres, ministres et secrétaires d'Etat, conseillers d'Etat ... présidens ... Didot. p. 281. Pierre-Joseph-Spiridion Dufey...

Joseph Caffarelli (1760–1845), French sailor, soldier and politician, Conseiller d'État and maritime prefect of Brest Louis-Marie de Castelbajac, French designer...

service up to the Peace of Lunéville. He was named a State Councillor (Conseiller d'État) in ordinary service, attached to the War section, on 30 Frimaire...

disbanded in 1490. It functioned as a Conseil d'État and was composed of counsellors (French: conseillers), a prosecutor general (French: procureur général)...

governor received 19 livres a day for each political prisoner – with conseiller-grade nobles receiving 15 livres – and, at the other end of the scale...

navy ministry again, but Truguet refused this, and was instead named conseiller d'État on 20 September 1801. He composed four reports for the First Consul...

captain" of Chartres. In 1705 he was appointed to the senior grade of Conseiller d'État. In 1716, he was appointed Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs...

in succession conseiller to the parlement de Paris (1711), maître des requêtes (1717), intendant of commerce (1725), conseiller d'État and finally commissaire...

1987 and then deuxième conseiller The embassy in New Delhi (1989–1992), as deuxième conseiller until 1990 and then premier conseiller Foreign Ministry's top...

Staff (18 December 1993). "L'enquête sur un projet d'action contre un conseiller de M. Pasqua Trois militants de l'OEuvre française ont été mis en examen"...

operates as a collegiate authority. It is composed of five councilors (Conseiller administratif / Conseillère administrative), each presiding over a department...

human species, I see in the future a homogeneous humanity. During the Ancien Régime (before the 1789 French revolution), jus soli (or "right of territory")...

1590 : François du Plessis (1548-1590), Provost Marshal of France, conseiller d'État 1590 : Charles de Choiseul, marquis de Praslin (1563-1626), Maréchal...

became Secrétaire d'État des Affaires Ètrangères, succeeding his father from 24 August 1651 to 14 April 1663, Conseiller d’État on 12 September 1651...

politicien"". L'Express. Retrieved 8 December 2009. "Eric Stauffer, ancien conseiller de Xavier Duval, revient à Maurice". Lexpress.mu. L'Express. 16 December...