How To Use Ancien regime In A Sentence
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Nevertheless, the voluptuous figures that adorn his ormolu mounts and the fluidity of his designs gave Linke's pieces their characteristic blend of ancien regime and Art Nouveau, that made them stand out.
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Charles-Maurice de Talleyrand, the priapic bishop of Autun who became France's diplomat for all seasons he served and survived both the Revolution and Napoleon, famously remarked that no one who had not lived during the ancien régime could have any idea of how sweet life could be.
Why They All Came to Versailles
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At the same time, French ports, the gateway to the world under the Ancien Régime, were steadily undermined.
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Sales of vast tracts of land belonging to religious houses and the former rulers also provided the capital needed to liquidate the debts of the ancien régime and establish state and public finances on a new and more solid basis.
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The philosophes criticized the ancien regime of religious superstition and dogmatism, hidebound social traditions, and repressive morality.
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The story of papal elections is really the story of the college of cardinals, which functions like the unelected aristocracies of the ancien regime.
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Under the ancien régime these two powerful groups had often blocked princely attempts to rationalize and centralize the administration.
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Second, by spreading revolutionary ideals and institutions, Napoleon made it impossible for the restoration of the ancien regime.
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Although the idea for the Lachine Canal dates back to the earliest days of the ancien régime in New France, getting the project going was a real stumper.
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The U.S. has sided with the long term inviable and ancien regime faction in that dispute, i.e. the Badrists and Maliki.
Matthew Yglesias » Obama, Odierno, and Iraq
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The ancien regime and its destruction by the French Revolution had to be synthesized and made meaningful by a new clergy of elites: the technocrats.
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This article is therefore focused on one of the most routinised ceremonies ever performed during the Ancien Régime: the royal Mass.
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The nineteenth century saw the emergence of Italy as a unified state and as a modern political system, moving from the ancien régime of monarchs and feudal aristocracies to an elected parliament and civil rights.
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Fleury, in the strange jargon of the day, as "_the fosterer of a swarm of bad citizens, who were nourished in the anticivic prejudices_ de l'ancien régime, _and fostered in the most detestable superstitions, in defiance of the law_.
Tales and Novels — Volume 06
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Presumably “nattier” refers to the family of French painters of the ancien régime, and on that basis one might tentatively assign it to the category of pink, but this is by no means an obvious choice, because judging from their airy palette, “nattier” might equally qualify as pale blue or yellow.
Further thoughts about “Pavlova”
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Much of the privileged leadership of the Ancien Régime had lost their heads to the guillotine, a device invented to "mercifully" eliminate an entire class of people.
Rodney Punt: Cherubini's Medea to Launch Long Beach Opera's New Season
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Under the ancien régime, no self-respecting local would be seen in the glitzy hotel bars, as only the party faithful and their gangster hangers-on frequented them.
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The tradition of Richelieu has today been inherited by a republican canaille that is wholly lacking the finesse of the ancien régime.
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The Directory tried to preserve the Revolution of 1789 - they opposed the restoration of the ancien regime as well as popular democracy.
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The second and third consuls offer a good example of the consular ralliement: Cambacérès was a regicide, while Lebrun was a royal servant under the Ancien Régime.
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Behind all the pomp and ceremony of Louis XIV's court, the ancien regime was rotting.
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Now an exile himself, he makes gentle but deadly fun of those émigrés who forgather, like the White Russians of old, in a café society devoted to toasting the ancien régime.
The Persian Version
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a member of the Committee of Public Safety, denounced Madame de Fleury, in the strange jargon of the day, as "_the fosterer of a swarm of bad citizens, who were nourished in the anticivic prejudices_ de l'ancien regime, _and fostered in the most detestable superstitions, in defiance of the law_.
Murad the Unlucky and Other Tales
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In the Muslim tradition," Mr. Lewis noted, "justice is the standard" of good government—and the very thing the ancien regimes in Tunisia, Egypt and Libya so flagrantly traduced.
Why Islamists Are Winning
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Such a vision certainly harked back to the Ancien Régime conception of a society of ranks and orders.
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The second and third consuls offer a good example of the consular ralliement: Cambacérès was a regicide, while Lebrun was a royal servant under the Ancien Régime.
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At the same time an amnesty was decreed for all those who had fought for freedom under the Ancien Régime.
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Those ancien régime dynasts and statesmen knew what they were doing.
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Forget the distance from the king's nose to the tip of his thumb, the aune and the ell, the befuddling patchwork of local measures in ancien régime France.
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The idea: Delaroche (and his followers) were nostalgic for the Ancien Regime, at a time when it was politically unwise to have monarchist sympathies.
'Don Pasquale' Arias Titillate
