Ancien Régime

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Ancien Régime refers to the political and social system of monarchical, aristocratic, and feudal institutions that governed France before the French Revolution of 1789.

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Predicate Object
instanceOf historical period
political system
social system
alsoKnownAs Ancien Régime
surface form: Old Regime
appliesTo France
capital Paris
characterizedBy absolutism
centralization of royal power
corporate society
feudal privileges
seigneurial rights
social inequality
tax exemptions for nobility and clergy
country Kingdom of France
economicSystem agrarian economy
mercantilism
endCause French Revolution
surface form: French Revolution of 1789
endEvent French Revolution
endPoint 1789
hasAssembly Estates-General of 1789
hasEstate First Estate
Second Estate
Third Estate
hasFormOfGovernment absolute monarchy
hereditary monarchy
hasKeyEvent reign of Louis XIV
hasKeyInstitution Roman Catholicism
surface form: Catholic Church

Estates-General of 1789
surface form: Estates-General

aristocracy
feudal system
monarchy
parlements
hasSocialStructure Three Estates
hasSymbol Bourbon monarchy
influencedBy Roman Catholicism
surface form: Catholic Church

feudalism
language French
legalSystem customary law
royal ordinances
notableRuler Louis XIV of France
surface form: Louis XIV

Louis XV of France
surface form: Louis XV

Louis XVI of France
surface form: Louis XVI
opposedBy Enlightenment philosophy
surface form: Enlightenment thinkers

French revolutionaries
region Western Europe
religion Roman Catholicism
startPoint 15th century
late Middle Ages
usedInContext Ancien Régime self-linksurface differs
surface form: pre-revolutionary France

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fleur-de-lis associatedWith Ancien Régime
this entity surface form: French monarchy
Jean-Baptiste Le Prince era Ancien Régime
this entity surface form: Ancien Régime France
Isaac de Portau era Ancien Régime
this entity surface form: Ancien Régime France
Order of Saint Louis historicalEra Ancien Régime
this entity surface form: Ancien Régime France
Count of Dreux linkedToInstitution Ancien Régime
this entity surface form: French monarchy
Battle of Bouvines strengthened Ancien Régime
this entity surface form: French monarchy
Jean-Baptiste Lallemand period Ancien Régime
this entity surface form: Ancien Régime France
royal edict of Louis XVI historicalPeriod Ancien Régime
subject surface form: Royal Edict of Louis XVI (1789)
royal edict of Louis XVI legalAuthority Ancien Régime
subject surface form: Royal Edict of Louis XVI (1789)
this entity surface form: French monarchy
Bourbon monarchy partOf Ancien Régime
Louis Thomas of Savoy, Count of Soissons historicalContext Ancien Régime
this entity surface form: Ancien Régime France
Collège de Clermont historicalPeriod Ancien Régime
Third Estate locatedInTime Ancien Régime
Varennes-en-Argonne hasHistoricalPeriod Ancien Régime
this entity surface form: Ancien Régime France
Armand associatedWith Ancien Régime
subject surface form: Armand Jean du Plessis, Cardinal Richelieu
this entity surface form: French monarchy
Count of Provence usedIn Ancien Régime
this entity surface form: Ancien Régime France
Jean-Baptiste de Vimeur timePeriod Ancien Régime
Louis-Marie-Athanase de Loménie de Brienne era Ancien Régime
this entity surface form: Ancien Régime France
Second Estate partOf Ancien Régime
Second Estate appliesToPeriod Ancien Régime
this entity surface form: Ancien Régime in France
Second Estate partOf Ancien Régime
this entity surface form: Three Estates of pre-revolutionary France
Jean-Baptiste Drouet opposedTo Ancien Régime
this entity surface form: French monarchy
troupe of the Duke of Orléans historicalPeriod Ancien Régime
this entity surface form: Ancien Régime France
August Decrees of 1789 precededBy Ancien Régime
this entity surface form: Ancien Régime feudal system
Duke of Fitz-James historicalContext Ancien Régime
this entity surface form: Ancien Régime France
L’École des maris culturalContext Ancien Régime
this entity surface form: Ancien Régime France
La Force prison operatedDuring Ancien Régime
de La Baume Le Blanc historicalPeriod Ancien Régime
this entity surface form: Ancien Régime France
Sister Louise of Mercy era Ancien Régime
this entity surface form: Ancien Régime France
Louis de La Baume Le Blanc (marriage by title; she held the duchy in her own right) historicalPeriod Ancien Régime
subject surface form: Louis de La Baume Le Blanc
this entity surface form: Ancien Régime France
Carmelite convent in the Faubourg Saint-Jacques, Paris era Ancien Régime
this entity surface form: Ancien Régime France
Manufacture des Gobelins patron Ancien Régime
this entity surface form: French monarchy
French royal academies era Ancien Régime
Salle des Machines historicalPeriod Ancien Régime
special courts (chambres de l’édit) historicalPeriod Ancien Régime
subject surface form: chambres de l’édit
this entity surface form: early modern France
First Estate partOf Ancien Régime
French authorities historicalPeriod Ancien Régime
Fort de Joux usedDuring Ancien Régime
Alexandrine-Jeanne Lenormant d’Étiolles era Ancien Régime
this entity surface form: Ancien Régime France
Françoise d’Aubigné era Ancien Régime
Salpêtrière prison historicalPeriod Ancien Régime
Jansenism historicalPeriod Ancien Régime
this entity surface form: Ancien Régime France
royal white flag of France symbolizes Ancien Régime
Conseil du Roi appliesToPeriod Ancien Régime