The quadrangle you have entered is the site of the old Palace of the Dukes of Brabant, for which the present building, known as the =Ancienne Cour=, was substituted by the Austrian Stadtholders in 1731 after the great fire.
In our country they are to be purchased; but we make a great difference between the parvenus of the present day and the ancienne noblesse.
In a northerly direction it then followed the line of the latter street, crossing the Boulevard St. Germain, and continued by the Rue de l'Ancienne Comédie.
Maspero, Histoire Ancienne des Peuples de l'Orient; also Maspero and Sayce, The Dawn of Civilization, p.
For a philosophical statement of reasons why the struggle was more bitter and the attempt at deceptive compromises more absurd in England than elsewhere, see Maury, L'Ancienne Academie des Sciences, second edition, p.
Flach, in his Origines de l'ancienne France, finds the germ from which sprang the whole feudal system in this patronage, the system of defence of the serf and vassal by the landed proprietor.
Bishop Raoul de Beaumont came of one of the illustrious races of crusaders, statesmen, and prelates, the ancienne chevalerie in which France was so prolific for centuries.
I have seen the extracts in Bibli otheque Ancienne et Moderne, tom.
The chief of them were: in the 14th century, the Stylus Vetus Curiae Parlamenti of Guillaume de Breuil; the Tres ancienne coutume de Bretagne; the Grand Coutumier de France, or Coutumier de Charles VI.
There is much to be said on the other side; see Flach, Les origines de l'ancienne France, ii.
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