France, he considers, is still at heart what the Ancien Regime made her.
The exhaustion was general; and to it we must attribute alike the changes and the conservatism of the Ancien Regime.
It will be seen, from what I have said, that I consider the Ancien Regime to begin in the seventeenth century.
It, and the notion of art which it expresses, are the children of the Ancien Regime--of the era of decay.
For reasons which I have set forth at length in an introductory discourse, there never was any Ancien Regime in England.
For, in France at least, the Ancien Regime was no tyranny.
Of all problems connected with the education of a young prince, that of the influence of woman was, in the France of the Ancien Regime, the most important.
We may consider it, as it was considered in its time, the typical novel of the Ancien Regime.
So it was with that Inductive Physical Science, which helped more than all to break up the superstitions of the Ancien Regime, and to set man face to face with the facts of the universe.
On the contrary, England was the mother of every movement which undermined, and at last destroyed, the Ancien Regime.
The shadowy ghost of the ancien régime seemed to have become more bowed during the conversation.
Shadowy in his tricorne and old-fashioned clothes like a bowed thin ghost of the ancien régime the Chevalier voiced a ghostly memory.
Her father and mother were remnants of the ancien regime, but the costume of the vieux papa was not at all in the style of Blissett's Frenchman.
These are the fables that we read during the ancien regime; there are none so good now.
The women of the ancien régime did not share in the timidity which, to a certain degree, still restrained their husbands.
Day after day they heard or they read (in France every body reads now,) that the government intended to restore the "ancien régime.
It was the undisguised wish of this party to wash out every stain of the revolution, and to effect a full and unqualified restoration of the ancien régime in all its parts, and to all intents and purposes.
The real downfall of the ancien regime began in the year 1156, when a dispute arose between the reigning emperor and a retired sovereign simultaneously with a disagreement among the aristocracy regarding patronage.
After the fall of Heian and throughout the Kamakura deluge, the lake became a sort of lingering ancien regime touch, recalling the elegance of former days.
With touching fidelity and indomitable steadfastness the French people have cherished the principles of the Great Revolution, in whose name they swept the shams and wrongs of the ancien régime away.
Under the ancien régime the torture of accused persons was one of the sights shown to foreigners in Paris.
In France under the ancien regime there was a county of La Marche, and in north-east Germany there was the county of La Marck, now part of the kingdom of Prussia.
Under the ancien regime, the sovereign, holding his power by Divine right, was for this reason invested with a kind of supernatural power.
It is difficult to form a very clear idea of life under the ancien regime, and, above all, of the real situation of the peasants.
The Third Estate, which had supplanted the nobles, and the peasants, who had bought the national domains, would readily understand that the restoration of the ancien regime would despoil them of all their advantages.
This monarchical-feeling, with difficulty repressed by the Revolution, contributed to the success of Bonaparte when he came to occupy the throne of the ancient kings, and in great measure to re-establish the ancien regime.
The Absolute Monarchy and the Bases of the Ancien Regime.
The true cause of the disappearance of the ancien regime was simply the weakening of the traditions which served as its foundations.
The Inconveniences of the Ancien Regime A long-established system of government will always finally seem acceptable to the people governed.
The privileges of the ancien regime which had been so bitterly decried were thus very soon re-established for the benefit of the bourgeoisie.
The Absolute Monarchy and the Basis of the Ancien Regime 2.
To establish some sort of compromise between theancien regime and the new ideals was the most difficult of the problems which Bonaparte had to resolve.
The election having returned moderate deputies, he was able to continue to govern with the same principles, understanding very well that any attempt to govern the French by the ancien regime would be enough to provoke a general rebellion.
Under the ancien regime Frenchmen had supported every species of tyranny, and the Republic had created a despotism even heavier than that of the monarchy.
Slavery was abolished, the abuses of the ancien regime were destroyed, Italian unity was created under the stress of emotions which carried away thousands who could not have logically defended the impulse which governed their acts.
There was, however, another side to the so-called "Ancien Regime" which we must keep in mind.
Of the ancien régime there can be found to-day only ruins and relics.
Even the "liberties," among the few representative institutions which the ancien regime had left intact in some provinces, turned against the people.
Whilst the bureaucracy of the ancien regime sought for desperate expedients to prolong its domination, the whole social body gave signs of a yet distant but ever nearing disintegration.
Temple, and still less of bringing back the ancien regime.
The challenge was so definite that in 1826 the Chamber of Peers and the Academy had to give the Villele ministry a lesson in Liberalism, for having lent itself to thisancien regime reaction by its weakness and its party-promises.
The conflict between the ancien regime and the National Assembly ended in the defeat of the royalists.
The aristocracy of the ancien regime and of the Empire were alike without social influence; the clergy, which had paid for its too close alliance with Charles X.
Helliot, the celebrated ancien avocat of Rouen—Practice of legal bigamy in Normandy—A breakfast party—Death of M.
The story first appears in a “Discours sur l’ancien monastère des religieuses de Nice,” 1608.
A curiously small life must have been that of these little towns under the ancien régime, when the time of warfare was over.
This last editor thinks that eleven branches, which he has printed together, constitute an 'ancient collection' within the Ancien Renart, and have a certain connection and interdependence.
This includes not merely theAncien Renart, but the Couronnement and Renart le Nouvel.
The Empire dismissed him from public life, but gave him the opportunity of writing his second great book on the Ancien Regime.
Ernest Martin has given a new critical edition of theAncien Renart (3 vols.
She was chosen preceptress to the Princess in the ancien régime in opposition to the wife of Condorcet, and M.
I have not unfrequently heard the question: "How can Taine, whose first volume reveals more fully than any previous work the utter corruption of the Ancien Regime, place the Revolution in his second in an equally unfavourable light?
He who has once taken in this simple truth will be much inclined to a mild judgment of individual men and parties; at all events, he will not be able abruptly to take sides either for or against the Ancien Regime or the Revolution.
By a Conservative 398 The Ancien Regime and the Revolution in France.
The centralized government of France is by no means a creation of our century, but a production of the Ancien Regime.
Again, in the representation of the Ancien Regime, his attention is pre-eminently turned to social relations connected with the land.
This brings me back to my former remark: had Taine instead of or by the side of his picture of society under the Ancien Regime written the history of its last monarch, most assuredly he would have avoided this misconception.
All of these names were once noble and great in France, and as I bent over them, I could but call up France in the days of the ancien regime, when all these names called forth bows and fawnings from the people.
It occupied a kind of middle ground between the ancien regime and pure liberalism.
Have you ever noticed that the ancien régime, in spite of grievous shortcomings, by a sort of historical tradition, maintained a certain respect for efficiency in its different forms?
This can only be obtained if it hold its office by inheritance or purchase as was done under the ancien régime; or, if it were somehow contrived that magistrates should not be chosen by the Government.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "ancien" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
