Example sentences for: ancien

How can you use “ancien” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

  • That look--simple yet richly paved with glitter and colored enamel, altogether different from the frothy rococo excesses of the ancien

  • 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 .

  • Absolute power was the dominant feature of what post-Revolutionary France called the Ancien Régime.

  • 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.

  • The nationalism that Napoleon invoked in his conquest of Europe’s Ancien Régime turned against him in Spain, Russia, and Germany.


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