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Example sentences for: ancien

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Her father was a parvenu who used to be a bon vivant and the enfant terrible of his clique but became a laissez-faire entrepreneur in the entrepôt business and then accepted a post as a chargé d'affaires, which entitled him to a UN laissez-passer, (working to improve detente, and rapprochement with the ancien régime), though he remained a bit of a roué, having an affaire with the au pair.
The nationalism that Napoleon invoked in his conquest of Europe’s Ancien Régime turned against him in Spain, Russia, and Germany.
Absolute power was the dominant feature of what post-Revolutionary France called the Ancien Régime.
There are also references to 17 th -century pirates, Arabian Nights sultans, Regency bucks, fin-de-siècle dandies and depraved noblemen of the ancien r(gime .
Louis’s reactionary successor, his brother Charles X, was interested only in renewing the traditions of the Ancien Régime, even having himself anointed and crowned at the ancient cathedral of Reims.