Example sentences of "of [art] ancien " in BNC.
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| 1 | But both the period of the ancien regime and the period of change in East Germany have revealed another German characteristic — that of going along with authority . |
| 2 | Members of the ancien regime , such as Cecil Parkinson , Nicholas Ridley and the Charles Powells perched by her in front of a television set . |
| 3 | Inspired by Talleyrand , the founder of the Dynasty had set up a number of high sounding offices such as Vice Grand Elector and Vice Constable , and to these gothic absurdities were added the ceremonies of the lever and coucher , echoes of the ancien régime . |
| 4 | The child was christened Napoleon , Eugène , Louis , Jean , Joseph , and after his name in the baptismal register of ‘ the Imperial parish of Saint Germain l'Auxerrois ’ the Emperor wrote ‘ Son of France ’ , thus curiously reviving a custom of the ancien régime because , as he said : ‘ When an heir is born to perpetuate a national institution , that child is the whole country 's son : and this name will serve to remind him of his duties . ’ |
| 5 | When , in 1846 , the Polish aristocracy in Western Galicia , pre-eminent representatives of the ancien régime , endeavoured to interest their peasant tenants in the national struggle , the latter rose in revolt and slaughtered nearly one thousand of the nobles . |
| 6 | Meanwhile , however , the rich followed their king 's dictum ‘ Après moi , le déluge ’ , and gave themselves up to pleasure — balls , the opera ( where new works by Gluck , Grétry and Piccinni were finally displacing the heroic works of Lully and Rameau , beloved of the Ancien Régime ) , gambling and hunting ; the chattering middle classes were busy discussing politics and aesthetics ; writers such as Voltaire and Diderot were chipping away at the foundations of society with their radical ideas of universal fraternity in this ‘ Age of Enlightenment ’ ; and the poor were being told to ‘ eat cake ’ , if they had no bread . |
| 7 | As she is impervious to his suggestions , he is determined to revive the old custom known as the droit du seigneur ( one of the most hated abuses of the Ancien Régime ) , whereby the lord of a manor was entitled to deflower his female servants before their weddings . |
| 8 | The nobility of the ancien régime from which twentieth-century Europeans emerged was one of deeply entrenched attitudes which were often hardly made explicit — because they did not need to be . |
| 9 | He claims that by the latter half of the eighteenth century the fading ‘ monarchical law ’ of the ancien régime was being confronted by two different alternatives : the programme of the ‘ reforming jurists ’ ( classical criminology ) and that of the advocates of the prison : |
| 10 | French revolutionary experience cast a long shadow over the early and middle nineteenth century , in the aftermath of the 1789 — 93 overthrow of the ancien régime , and the successive coups and counter-coups of 1830 , 1848 — 51 and 1870 — 1 . |
| 11 | He analysed the great 1789 uprising as a conflict between the four ‘ estates ’ of the ancien regime . |
| 12 | While we have examined Oakeshott as a conservative thinker therefore we must be careful to distinguish him from the religious conservatism of Burke and from the mainstream forms of conservatism which Huntington identified in the aristocratic and situational theories as ideological defences of the ancien régime or of established institutions . |
| 13 | Molitor is not a furniture maker of the Ancien Régime whose name springs as readily to mind as many others Roentgen , BVRB or Jacob although his career spanned the period 1785 to the Bourbon Restoration . |
| 14 | Translated as the historical purpose of the bourgeois , Marx saw money as the necessary stripping away of every vestment of the ancien régime , every personal relation of family and society , which would provide the essential foundation for the possibility of communism . |
| 15 | It follows that the break up of the ancien régime and the impact of the Enlightenment gave rise to a radical transformation of the nature of objects in society . |
| 16 | Following on this , the more general impact of Enlightenment ideas which questioned the legitimacy of the ancien régime allowed goods to begin to play new constitutive roles , which in turn led to a substantial rise in demand . |
| 17 | Modernism certainly had its place in the destruction of the ancien régime , but it is only one particular form of social change and has recently been most conspicuous in its failures . |
| 18 | THE ECONOMIC STRUCTURE OF THE ANCIEN RÉGIME |
| 19 | In 1839 the Mesta , the greatest economic corporation in Spain , was finally destroyed ; in the name of laissez-faire the liberals completed the task of the civil servants of the ancien régime . |
| 20 | There are a few signs of that fierce screwing up of feudal payments characteristic of the later stages of the ancien régime in France ; in Catalonia , for instance , a steady increase in the price of the farms of feudal dues overtook the rise in agricultural prices . |
| 21 | Apart from this tenacious defence of local liberties the Caroline bureaucrats , in common with other administrative technicians of the ancien régime in Europe , found that the main obstacle to modernization lay in the inertia of the average Spanish office-holder and the sheer size of the administrative apparatus — the superfluity of posts that nourished what was later to be termed empleadismo . |
| 22 | Liberty entered into men 's minds in the struggle against the economic prejudices of the ancien régime , a struggle waged by servants of the crown . |
| 23 | THE CRISIS OF THE ANCIEN RÉGIME 18081814 |
| 24 | From these events the monarchy of the ancien régime was never to recover . |
| 25 | The crisis of the ancien régime is marked by that interplay between foreign policy and domestic faction which typifies the collapse of enfeebled states . |
| 26 | When the Juntas were thwarted in their organization of a war effort by the spiky legalism of those local organs of the ancien régime which survived in unoccupied Spain , they could defend their authority only be deriving it from the elections of ‘ a free people who did not wish to perish ’ . |
| 27 | As representatives of the sovereign nation whose king was a captive in Talleyrand 's chateau , the patriots claimed to supplant the structure of the ancien régime that had so signally failed in the supreme test of patriotism . |
| 28 | In the name of these principles the Cortes produced on paper ( for neither the constitution nor its legislative consequences were ever effective ) a Spain that would have delighted the monarchical bureaucrats : a clumsy taxational system , with endless provincial divergencies , was to be replaced by a uniform income tax ; the machinery of the ancien régime with its characteristic confusion of administrative and judicial function was dismantled . |
| 29 | Yet despite taxation , starvation , and the paramount claims of the French army in Joseph 's kingdom and in the independent feudatories of the generals , a rational , modern administration replaced the confusions of the ancien régime . |
| 30 | His ‘ reformist ’ policy of strict economy and taxation of the privileged orders was strenuously resisted by representatives of the ancien régime , lead by Eguía , who wore an eighteenth-century wig . |