Discuss the crisis of ancien regime
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This chapter examines the political crisis from the point of view of the ancien regime or the aristocratic, social, and political systems in Aquitaine, France, during the 1780s.
Explanation:Mind map on the impact of enlightenment ideas on the Ancien Regime The first stage of the revolution involved the nobles and indeed it is somewhat ironical that it was at their insistence that the Estates General was called, which of course will lead to the revolutionary events of 1789.
The Ancien Régime was the political and social system of the Kingdom of France from the Late Middle Ages until 1789, when hereditary monarchy and the feudal system of French nobility were abolished by the French Revolution. The Ancien Régime was ruled by the late Valois and Bourbon dynasties. The term is occasionally used to refer to the similar feudal systems of the time elsewhere in Europe. The administrative and social structures of the Ancien Régime were the result of years of state-building, legislative acts, internal conflicts, and civil wars, but they remained and the Valois Dynasty's attempts at re-establishing control over the scattered political centres of the country were hindered by the Huguenot Wars. Much of the reigns of Henry IV and Louis XIII and the early years of Louis XIV were focused on administrative centralization. Despite, however, the notion of "absolute monarchy" and the efforts by the kings to create a centralized state, the Kingdom of France retained its irregularities: authority regularly overlapped and nobles struggled to retain autonomy.