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See Jones, "Coquettes and Grisettes: Women Buying and Selling in Ancien-Régime Paris," in Victoria de Grazia, ed.,
"Make It Yourself": Home Sewing, Gender, and Culture, 1890-1930 2006
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The main or "Ancien" Renart was re-edited by E. Martin (3 vols.,
A History of the French Novel, Vol. 1 From the Beginning to 1800 George Saintsbury 1889
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Tocqueville wrote that the Ancien Régime had provoked its own demise by alleviating somewhat its authoritarian strictures.
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What he was referring to was the Old or Ancien Order.
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Power, today, is still in the hands of those associated with the Ancien regime.
Shadi Hamid: Tunisia: The First Arab Democratic Revolution? Shadi Hamid 2011
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Power, today, is still in the hands of those associated with the Ancien regime.
Shadi Hamid: Tunisia: The First Arab Democratic Revolution? Shadi Hamid 2011
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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 Rodney Punt 2011
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Power, today, is still in the hands of those associated with the Ancien regime.
Shadi Hamid: Tunisia: The First Arab Democratic Revolution? Shadi Hamid 2011
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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.
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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.
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