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The ancien régime ( / ˌɒ̃sjæ̃ reɪˈʒiːm /; French: [ɑ̃sjɛ̃ ʁeʒim] ⓘ; lit. 'old rule') [a], now a common metaphor for "a system or mode no longer prevailing", [1] was the political and social system of the Kingdom of France that the French Revolution overturned [2] through its abolition in 1790 of the feudal system of the French ...
Summary. The meaning of absolutism. The purpose of this chapter is to describe the main tenets of absolutist and royalist thinking in the seventeenth century. That century, we are often told, saw the making of absolutism, especially in France.
- J.P. Sommerville
- 1991
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An interpretative essay on the nature of the absolute monarchy in old regime France in the early modern period. (PDF) Campbell Absolute Monarchy in William Doyle The Oxford Handbook of the Ancien Regime 2012 Oxford University Press | Peter R Campbell - Academia.edu
- Peter R Campbell
Absolutism (European history), period c. 1610 – c. 1789 in Europe. Enlightened absolutism, influenced by the Enlightenment (18th- and early 19th-century Europe) Absolute monarchy, in which a monarch rules free of laws or legally organized opposition.
The fundamental laws of the Kingdom of France were a set of unwritten principles which dealt with determining the question of royal succession, and placed limits on the otherwise absolute power of the king from the Middle Ages until the French Revolution in 1789.
