| The philosophes criticized the ancien regime of religious superstition and dogmatism, hidebound social traditions, and repressive morality. |
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| Second, by spreading revolutionary ideals and institutions, Napoleon made it impossible for the restoration of the ancien regime. |
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| Homage to yesterday's authorities went the way of the ancien regime, and hands-on experience replaced book learning. |
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| The story of papal elections is really the story of the college of cardinals, which functions like the unelected aristocracies of the ancien regime. |
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| But this convulsion feels too powerful to permit the survival of the ancien regime. |
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| This is a reform that the ancien regime, always with a finger to the wind of public opinion, spotted as an electoral nightmare and ducked. |
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| The French Revolution abolished many of the constraints on the economy that had slowed growth during the ancien regime. |
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| In the ancien regime, new opportunities for nuns as charitable practitioners were created by devout nobles on their own estates. |
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| If the lanifice of Mende at least staggered into the closing years of the ancien regime, it only did so in a purely nominal sense. |
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