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ancien régime

the prerevolutionary social order in France which was overthrown by the Revolution of 1789.

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Denis Diderot

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All of this contributed to the revolutionary explosion known as the French Revolution, during which the queen, her husband and those close to them perished and the entire ancient regime was demolished.

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The pantomime reminds us the ancient regime fought back and Britain remains an unequal Two Nations.

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In the wake of this revolution --a revolution which eventually brought to power the Ba'th party of Saddam Hussein the ancient regime of Iraq found itself both persecuted and imprisoned.

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In Yemen, the US and Saudi Arabian military intervention and the resultant support for the ancient regime has blocked the path of the revolution for a clean-cut success, establishment of a people's democracy and putting the wheels of the economy back to work.

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He went from being the leader of the crowd outside the Bastille to the personification of the ancient regime.

Presidential race focus of meeting; Speaker opines on Obama, GOP

Scully enjoyed plenty of success with juvenile fillies in France himself, owning three female winners of the Prix Morny in the 1980s - Ancient Regime, Regal State and Seven Springs.

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The Asian interactions, particularly in matters of trade, were already resident in continental Europe in the persons of merchants and diplomats from the Orient, as shown in Ina Baghdiantz McCabe's Orientalism in Early Modern France: Eurasian Trade, Exoticism and the Ancient Regime (Oxford, 2008).

Orientalism in Louis XIV's France

Among the topics are scandalous will, or, Congreve's library and female power; Burke's patriotic self-suggestion; writings on friendship in France's Ancient Regime and C.

1650-1850; ideas, aesthetics, and inquiries in the early modern era; v.17

In his Ancient Regime he likewise described, even if he did not specifically formulate, a host of 'exportable causal mechanisms'.

Alexis de Tocqueville: the First Social Scientist

were the public faces of the revolution, it was the rich and super-rich malcontents in the shadows who provided the funding that made the overthrow of the ancient regime possible.

The new Jacobin elite

Compared to last Saturday's final lineup, Asset, Al Qasi and Lipocco are the only absentees while Godolphin have reinstated Diabolical from the original five-day stage as has Michael Jarvis with Ancient Regime, presumably on the assumption that conditions on the Town Moor will be nothing like as demanding as it would have been at Haydock had they been able to race.

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By 1840 there was a strong and wealthy bourgeoisie in France hungry for luxury goods and eager to possess the newest and most innovative products of the factories that had once served the ancient regime.