Ancien Régime: 1400s–1789 sociopolitical system of the Kingdom of France
The Ancien Regime (French for Old Regime or Old Order) was the social and political system of absolute monarchy in France from 1500 to the French Revolution in 1792.
The Ancien Regime was marked by the ideology of absolutism and the preservation of aristocratic privileges.
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