EuroLex/F/Ancien Régime

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  • Original language: French
  • Original form and meaning: ancien régime - 1. former form of government, old rule

Ancien Régime - 2. The political and social system that existed in France before the Revolution of 1789

(Note: If the status is not specifically indicated then the word is stylistically neutral and generally used; if earlier meaning and status equals current use the former may be expressed by writing "dito". Cf. also the project guidelines.)

Language Form Date of Borrowing (and Obsolescence) Current Meaning and Status Earlier Meanings and Statusses Source
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Dutch AncienRégime ... 'institutional organisation which was raised by the French in 1795th (?)

Source: http://nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ancien_r%C3%A9gime'

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English Ancien Régime 1794 'meaning 2;

and also (in the plural - anciens régimes): a sociopolitical or other system that no longer exists'

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German Ancien Régime 19c 'meaning 1 & 2' '...' http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ancien_R%C3%A9gime
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Italian Ancien régime ... 'meaning 2' '...' ...
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Portuguese Antigo Regime ... 'meaning 2;

and also: socially - hierarchical structure (first, second and third state); politically: absolute monarchies; economically - the development of the commercial capitalism'

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Spanish Antiguo Régimen ... 'meaning 2;

and also: the European monarchies whose regime was similar to the one in France'

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The term Ancien Régime was established in the humanities through Alexis de Tocqueville’s essay L'ancien régime et la Révolution (1856). Tocqueville was a French publicist and politician.

Source: http://en.wikipedia.org

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