Recently, when it was proposed to suppress, without indemnity, the Majorats of the ancien regime, M.
Read in Taine's Ancien Regime, "La conquete Jacobine," and it will seem like current history.
Under the ancien regime the Parliament could and often did refuse to enregister royal acts and decrees.
A man who, in order to make himself loved by the masses, voted for the death of his cousin, the king, made himself riding trousers of the ancien regime, and was beheaded by the masses by way of thanks.
It is very important to note that under the ancien regime the lieutenant of police had a double function, being at the same time a subordinate of the minister of Paris[25] and a member of the Chatelet.
The frowning towers crumbled stone by stone under the picks of the demolishers, and, as if they had been the pedestal of the ancien regime, that too toppled over with a crash.
The French laity transferred to the king this quasi-divine authority, which became the political theory of the ancien regime; and since the pope refused to submit, or to institute the new bishops, the Sorbonne was obliged to interfere.
Even the "liberties," among the few representative institutions which the ancien regime had left intact in some provinces, turned against the people.
Bidet, writing in 1759, foreshadows the misery which marked the last thirty years of the ancien regime.
Madame Clicquot, as every one knows, amassed enormous wealth, and succeeded in marrying both her daughter and granddaughter to counts of the ancien regime.
The religious communities and royal academies were suppressed, and France violently broke with even her most recent past, which was considered to belong to the ancien regime.
Perhaps to none of the Jacobites broken in the cause of the bigot James was death so welcome as to this cold, sombre man, who could describe the joie de vivre of the ancien regime with a gaiety which has never been rivalled.
To her the ancien regime owed its two chief characteristics--its gaiety and its grace.
This girl was an intrigante of a type that abounded at the French Court throughout the ancien regime.
For other instances of writers who have noticed the vanity of the French, see Tocqueville, l'Ancien Regime, p.
Compare, in this connection, our last thirty years with the last thirty years of the ancien regime.
The horrible, stupid, savage tragedies which delighted the Greeks and the French of the ancien regime were philters, and nothing more.
Almost all his poems and his glory date from the Ancien Regime.
The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "ancien regime" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this group of words.
