where does this term come from?
First appeared in print in English in 1794 and was originally pejorative in nature
Ancien Régime
The term "Ancien Régime" first appeared in print in English in 1794 (two years after the inauguration of the First French Republic), and was originally pejorative in nature; Simon Schama has observed: "virtually as soon as the term was coined, 'old regime' was automatically freighted with associations of both traditionalism and senescence.
who ruled france when the metric system was established Ancien Régime how is this system associated with clocks? Christiaan Huygens's pendulum marking the seconds gave rise to proposals to use its length as a standard unit who/what exactly is the aforementioned ruler of france? It was the political and social system of the Kingdom of France from the Late Middle Ages
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Ancien Régime [SEP] Origin of the term
The term "Ancien Régime" first appeared in print in English in 1794 (two years after the inauguration of the First French Republic), and was originally pejorative in nature; Simon Schama has observed: "virtually as soon as the term was coined, 'old regime' was automatically freighted with associations of both traditionalism and senescence. It conjured up a society so encrusted with anachronisms that only a shock of great violence could free the living organism within. Institutionally torpid, economically immobile, culturally atrophied and socially stratified, this 'old regime' was incapable of self-modernization."