ancien in a sentence

Examples

1. This tax continued throughout the ancien r�gime.
2. The Ancien R�gime institutionalised the authority of the clergy in its status as the realm.
3. Under the ancien regime Arvieux was thus a relatively wealthy town in the French Alps.
4. The white mannequin is headless, as though she were excavated from some ancien regime ruin.
5. Except, of course, in that last bastion of ancien regime tyranny : network television.
6. The departments were created in 1791 as a rational replacement of Ancien R�gime d'Argenson.
7. Thereafter the abbey began to be used more regularly as a jail during the Ancien R�gime.
8. These guilds played a major economic role in Sion until the end of the Ancien R�gime.
9. It is reprinted in the 8th volume of the " Ancien Th��tre fran�ais ".
10. Historians explain the sudden collapse of the Ancien R�gime as stemming in part from its rigidity.