but as well as a symbol of the system of absolute monarchy of the Ancien Régime. The earliest mention of the name of Versailles is found in a document...

becoming first secretary responsible for international relations. The Ancien Régime position of Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs became Foreign Minister...

Under the Ancien Régime, the Kingdom of France was subdivided in multiple different ways (judicial, military, ecclesiastical, etc.) into several administrative...

farms, details the breed's significance in the Pays de Caux under the Ancien Régime: "Before the Revolution, the Pays de Caux possessed a species of horse...

The Régiment d'Auvergne was a regiment of the French army during the ancien régime and the French Revolution. 1597 : the creation of the Régiment du Bourg...

power under the constitutional monarchy, they hoped to restore the Ancien Régime and annul the rupture created by the French Revolution. Passionately...

gesture. It is a desire to break the very unpopular tax system of the Ancien Régime and make it more egalitarian. Archives de Paris, état civil reconstitué...

or Lamoignon-Malesherbes, was a French statesman and minister in the Ancien Régime, and later counsel for the defense of Louis XVI. He is known for his...

and parliamentary monarchy and not only by those nostalgic for the Ancien Régime; the fact that the ceremony was modernized and adapted to new times...

and formed the focal point of the daily life of the court during the Ancien Régime (Bluche, 1986, 1991; Petitfils, 1995; Solnon, 1987). The château's first...

Vichy France (French: Régime de Vichy; 10 July 1940 – 9 August 1944), officially the French State (État français), was the French rump state headed by...

Pays Basque Français sous l'Ancien Régime" [The provincial assemblies of the French Basque Country in the Ancient Regime.] (PDF). Revista Internacional de...

Martine Acerra, Rochefort, la construction navale française (1661–1815), Librairie de l’Inde, Paris, 1993, 4 vol. Yvonne Bézard, Fonctionnaires maritimes...

Révolution (1789–1797), publiés par Étienne Charavay, Archiviste Paléographe, Librairie Plon, E. Plon, Nourrit et Cie, Imprimeurs-Éditeurs, 10, rue Garancière...

against Louis XVI and the ties maintained by the Catholic Church with the ancien régime, but it was used more broadly against monarchies in French history....

Vau, Architecte: Les immeubles et hôtels particuliers parisiens. Paris: Librairie Léonce Laget. ISBN 9782852041196. Cojannot, Alexandre (2012). Louis Le...

urban administration. This institution existed until the end of the Ancien Régime. However, as of the urban revolution of 1421, the representatives of...

Paris definitions for the coutume of Paris, and definitions for other Ancien régime civil jurisdictions varied, at times quite significantly. The medieval...

of courtiers who sought royal favor and pensions. By the end of the Ancien Régime, the term “court” also came to represent royal power in its entirety...

artificial shortage likely to make people regret the [pre-revolutionary] Ancien Régime and to lead to seditious movements." Urged by authorities in Paris,...

names, Librairie Académie Perrin, coll. "Presence of history", 2005, p.249 Albert Dauzat, "Etymological dictionary of place names in France, Librairie Guénégaud...

horse, particularly the Pays de Léon. Throughout its history under the Ancien régime, Brittany has always exported horses. A number of sources are biased...

and a synonym for forme de gouvernement in French is régime politique. The term political regime exists in English, but has taken on negative connations...

stalwartly conservative: he heaped scorn upon republicanism and defended the Ancien Régime. Rivarol's writing was published in the Journal Politique of Antoine...

dévastés (1931) Histoire de la nation égyptienne (1931-1940) L'Art religieux ancien dans le comté de Nice et en Provence (1932) À propos de l'histoire (with...

ensuing debt and financial crisis contributed to the unpopularity of the Ancien Régime. This led to the convening of the Estates General of 1789. Discontent...

Count of Provence as brother of King Louis XVI, the last king of the Ancien Régime. On 21 September 1792, the National Convention abolished the monarchy...

headquarters staff of this citadel on 1 August 1791. Lieutenant-colonel with Ancien Régime, he was posted with the same grade in the 1st Somme battalion on 6 September...

Paris, France: Librairie J. Hetzel. Susane, Général Louis (1874). Historie de La Cavalerie Française. Vol. III. Paris, France: Librairie J. Hetzel. Desbrière...

Library Association. David T. Pottinger (1958). French Book Trade in the Ancien Regime, 1500-1791. Harvard University Press. ISBN 9780674432581. Allen Kent;...