The Ancien RegimePublished in 1986 as one of the first titles in the Studies in European History series, this essay quickly established itself as the most concise and accessible guide to the meanings and hidden complexities of an apparently straightforward historical category, both in the history of France and Europe as a whole. A second edition now incorporates material which has widened and advanced the historical debate in the intervening years, and includes a completely revised and expanded bibliography. |
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abolished absolute monarchy achievements Action Française agriculture analysis Ancien Regime society Annales School argued authority basic began bourgeois bourgeoisie Braudel capitalism Catholic Church clergy Cobban conflict constitution contemporaries Counter-Reformation cultural debate despotism early modern economic Ancien Regime Enlightenment established Estates-General Europe European feudal France France's French Revolution French society Frenchmen fundamental Gaxotte historians important interpretation J. M. Roberts Jaurès king L'Ancien Régime landed liberty Louis XIV Marxist medieval ment Méthiver mid eighteenth century middle ages Mousnier Napoleon nation nineteenth nobility noble old regime organisation parlements Physiocrats Pierre Goubert policies political popular population Porshnev pre-revolutionary privileged orders Reformation Regime's religion religious representative institutions Revolution 1968 Révolution Française revolutionaries right-wing Roland Mousnier royal rule seemed seventeenth century siècle sixteenth century social elites society of orders Taine taxation third estate Third Republic thought tion Tocqueville Tocqueville's trade traditional unprecedented upheavals venal offices wealth