"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...

article Intendant (Ancien Régime) from the French Wikipedia, accessed on 13 August 2006. American Heritage Dictionary definition of "intendant" "Definition...

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

[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...

first time in 1346, shrank progressively, becoming known during the Ancien Régime as the province of Languedoc. The year 1359 marked a turning point in...

Under the French Ancien Régime, a parlement (French pronunciation: [paʁləmɑ̃] ) was a provincial appellate court of the Kingdom of France. In 1789, France...

financial region, in France under the Ancien Régime. The representative of the royal government, the intendant, split up the impôts in each region with...

and Councillor of State. Ancien Régime Early modern France Master of Requests (disambiguation) Bluche, François. L'Ancien régime: Institutions et société...

domestic, and religious entourage of the French royal family during the Ancien Régime and Bourbon Restoration. The exact composition and duties of its various...

The Intendants des finances were intendants or agents of France's financial administration under the Ancien Régime. The role of intendant des finances...

the ancien régime killed that day. Bernard-René Jourdan de Launay Charles Coulston Gillispie - Science and Polity in France: The End of the Old Regime p23...

November 1741 – 20 February 1794) was a French magistrate and intendant of the Ancien Régime, born in Metz (Moselle). He was counselor in the parliament...

One of France's Secretaries of State under the Ancien Régime was entrusted with control of the French Navy (Secretary of State of the Navy (France).)...

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

France. Claude-François Bertrand de Boucheporn (1741-1794), intendant of the Ancien Régime Communes of the Moselle department "Répertoire national des...

Under the Ancien Régime, a pays d'états (French pronunciation: [pei deta]) was a type of généralité, or fiscal and financial region where, in contrast...

proposed several times as an administrative reform during the Ancien Régime, notably by the intendant of the généralité of Brittany, Caze de La Bove, in his...

ʁwa]) was, in the organisation of the French royal household under the Ancien Régime, the department of the Maison du Roi responsible for the "lesser pleasures...

In France under the ancien régime, a states provincial or estates provincial (états provinciaux) was an assembly of the three estates of a province, "regularly...

were the most extensive of all the administrative positions of the Ancien Régime. According to the official description of 1665, the Controller-General...

The Spanish institutions of the Ancien Régime were the superstructure that, with some innovations, but above all through the adaptation and transformation...

(French pronunciation: [vɛ̃tjɛm], twentieth) was an income tax of the ancien régime in France. It was abolished during the French Revolution. It was first...

of Terror was the result of behaviour learned from the rulers of the Ancien Régime. Chisholm 1911. Simon Schama, page 405 Citizens: A Chronicle of the...

Monaco. Present Prince of Monaco is a descendant of Madeleine Fare. Ancien Régime François-Michel le Tellier, Marquis de Louvois (le Tellier son) Charles...

French monarchy, conferring leadership of the Maison du Roi. Under the Ancien Régime the ministerial post at the head of the Maison du Roi was a Secrétaire...

movement and had a great impact on Turgot. Gournay, a free-marketer, was Intendant for Commerce and spent extensive time with Turgot. Gournay’s opinion on...

French royal official of the ancien regime. He was twice Secretary of State for War. He was born in 1669 to a former intendant of Normandy, Louis le Blanc...

continued as the States Provincial of France during the time of the Ancien Régime. In addition to founding the Estates, Duke Arthur II introduced the...

Revolution, he was involved in the charges against the financiers of the Ancien Régime. The Revolutionary Tribunal sentenced him to death, and he was guillotined...

Subdelegates and Subdelegations on the territory of the département, under the ancien régime (in French) Letter from the king, to the Assemblée nationale, in reply...