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  2. The Old Regime and the Revolution - Wikipedia

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    Alexis de Tocqueville, L'Ancien Régime et la Révolution, Lévy, 1866 L'Ancien Régime et la Révolution (1856) is a work by the French historian Alexis de Tocqueville translated in English as either The Old Regime and the Revolution or The Old Regime and the French Revolution.

  3. Ancien régime - Wikipedia

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    Until the French Revolution, the monastic community constituted a central element of the economic, social, and religious life of many localities under the Old Regime. From the end of the Wars of Religion to the French Revolution, Menat, a Cluniac abbey dating back to 1107, ruled over the Sioule Valley in the northwest region of the Clermont ...

  4. Alexis de Tocqueville - Wikipedia

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    L'Ancien Régime et la Révolution (1856) – The Old Regime and the Revolution. It is Tocqueville's second most famous work. Recollections (1893) – This work was a private journal of the Revolution of 1848. He never intended to publish this during his lifetime; it was published by his wife and his friend Gustave de Beaumont after his death.

  5. Estates of the realm - Wikipedia

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    [citation needed] Under the ancien régime ("old rule/old government", i.e. before the revolution), the Second Estate were exempt from the corvée royale (forced labor on the roads) and from most other forms of taxation such as the gabelle (salt tax), and most important, the taille (France's oldest form of direct taxation). This exemption from ...

  6. Tocqueville effect - Wikipedia

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    The reform and revolution paradox was explained in his next book, The Old Regime and the Revolution (1856): [7] The regime that a revolution destroys is almost always better than the one that immediately preceded it, and experience teaches that the most dangerous time for a bad government is usually when it begins to reform.

  7. French Revolution - Wikipedia

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    The causes of the revolution were a combination of social, political, and economic factors which the ancien régime ("old regime") proved unable to manage. A financial crisis and widespread social distress led to the convocation of the Estates General in May 1789, its first meeting since 1614.

  8. Historiography of the French Revolution - Wikipedia

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    Usually translated as The Old Regime and the French Revolution. Blanc, Louis (1847–1862). Histoire de la Révolution française. Taine, Hippolyte (1875–1893). Origines de la France contemporaine. Sorel, Albert (19 April 1895). L'Europe et la Révolution française. Introductory part translated as Europe under the Old Regime (1947).

  9. French emigration (1789–1815) - Wikipedia

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    Under the old regime, they were accustomed with a certain quality of living and with the right to pass this life to their children. The Revolution was looking to remove all privilege in an effort to make everyone politically equal, so the first émigrés , or emigrants, were proponents of the old order and chose to leave France although ...