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-	[[Image:Cardinal Armand de Rohan-Soubise.gif|thumb|200px|''[[Cardinal Armand de Rohan-Soubise]]'' by [[anonymous]]	+	#REDIRECT [[Ancien régime]]
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-	Anonymous [[satirical]] [[caricature]] of the Cardinal Armand de Rohan-Soubise (1717-1757); this engraving is a good example of "[[pornography]]" as a tool for political [[subversion]] during France's [[ancien régime]].	+
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-	:''[[The Forbidden Best-Sellers of Pre-Revolutionary France]]''	+
-	The '''Ancien Régime''' (also known as '''pre-revolutionary France'''), a [[French language|French]] term rendered in [[English language|English]] as "Old Rule," "Old Order," or simply "Old Regime", refers primarily to the [[aristocracy|aristocratic]], [[sociology|social]] and [[politics|political]] system established in [[France]] from (roughly) the [[15th century]] to the [[18th century]] under the [[Valois Dynasty|late Valois]] and [[House of Bourbon|Bourbon]] dynasties. The administrative and social structures of the Ancien Régime were the result of centuries of nation-building, legislative acts (like the [[Ordinance of Villers-Cotterêts]]), internal conflicts and civil wars, but they remained a confusing patchwork of local [[privilege]] and historic differences until the [[French Revolution]] brought about a radical suppression of administrative incoherence.	+
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-	== See also ==	+
-	*[[Absolute monarchy]]	+
-	*[[French Revolutionary Wars]]	+
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