"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...

A prévôt (French pronunciation: [pʁeˈvoː]) was a governmental position of varying importance in Ancien Régime France, typically referring to a civil officer...

French novelist Pauline Ferrand-Prévot (born 1992), French cyclist Prévôt, government official of the Ancien Régime (provost) Provost (name) This page...

a minor lawyer in the United Kingdom Vicar, one who administers religious law Vegueria, in Catalonia Ancien Régime in France (section Justice) v t e...

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, a post equivalent...

France (bailie being the Old French term for a bailiff). Under the ancien régime in France, the bailli was the king's representative in a bailliage,...

in them the arts of court society and arms. The elaboration of the ancien régime state was made possible only by redirecting these clientèle systems...

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...

The Grand Châtelet was a stronghold in Ancien Régime Paris, on the right bank of the Seine, on the site of what is now the Place du Châtelet; it contained...

marbre". Dictionnaire de l'Ancien Régime : royaume de France, XVIe-XVIIIe siècle [Dictionary of the Ancien Régime: kingdom of France, 16th-18th centuries]...

Wenzler pg. 24 Philippe Prévôt, Histoire des jardins, pg. 164 Philippe Prévôt, Histoire des jardins, pg. 166 Philippe Prévôt, Histoire des jardins, pg...

Académie des Inscriptions in 1751. He was made conseiller d’État in 1762 and prévôt des marchands de Paris in 1764. The scholar Dupuy pronounced his elogy....

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...

Maynier 1557-1564: Jean-Augustin de Foresta (1520-1588) 1564-1590: Bernard Prévot 1590-1599: Artus de Prunières 1599-1616: Guillaume du Vair 1616-1621: Marc-Antoine...

pronunciation: [baji]) was the king's administrative representative during the ancien régime in northern France, where the bailiff was responsible for the application...

and France, 1422–1453 Charles VII the Well Served, 1422–1461 List of Ancien Régime dioceses of France In the Middle Ages, France was primarily made up...

Gendarmerie is the direct descendant of the Maréchaussée ("Marshalcy") of the ancien regime. The Maréchaussée lasted from medieval times until the French Revolution...

forget that behind this 14 July, where victory of the new era over the Ancien Régime was bought by fighting, do not forget that after the day of 14 July...

his direction. Trudaine was born in Paris, the son of Charles Trudaine, prévôt des marchands de Paris (provost of the merchants of Paris). Daniel-Charles...

June, a plot was hatched by the ligue to deliver Boulogne to Aumale, the prévôt of the town, Vétus was recruited so that on one of his regular visits to...

This broad, charitable mission was to dominate until the end of the Ancien Régime. By 1789, the Age of Enlightenment—with its focus on the pursuit of...

or noblesse échevinale ("nobility of the chain") – échevins (mayors) or prévôts des marchands (merchants' provosts) in certain important towns, including...

but it nevertheless marked an evolution in female education under the Ancien Régime. Its notable students included Maintenon's niece Marthe-Marguerite Le...

who were present in the city. Brissac was with the Estates when the grand prévôt Richelieu burst in with a company of arquebusiers and halted the session...

poor neighbourhoods, who wanted a republic and the abolition of the Ancien Régime, including the privileged classes: the aristocracy and the Church. Aristocrats...

Hugh (ed.). Encyclopedia Britannica (11th ed.). 1911. Prevot, Histoire des jardins, p. 146 Prevot, Histoire des jardins, p. 152 Lucia Impelluso, Jardins...

Mosan art by Hugo d'Oignies, currently presented in the Musée des Arts Anciens (Rue de Fer). Elsewhere there is an archeological museum and a museum dedicated...

Revolution, all academies were deemed to be fatally tainted by the Ancien régime associations and terminated on 8 August 1793. Barely more than two years...

bois (shopping arcade) opens in the Palais-Royal. 8 June – A decree of the Prévôt de Paris authorized caterers and chefs to establish restaurants and to serve...

Republic, something the Monarchy had never managed to do under the Ancien Regime. He was not re-elected under the Convention and Tenon, disapproving...