Ancien Regime Schmancien Schmegime
This term refers to France’s political and social system before the Revolution.
What is the Ancien Regime?
This Enlightenment philosopher argued for a separation of governmental powers and reform to laws.
Who was Montesquieu?
When grain prices rose, urban workers were forced to spend a larger proportion of their income on this necessity.
What is bread?
In eighteenth-century portraits, very young boys and girls could both be depicted wearing this item of clothing.
What is a Christening Dress?
This regent was known as The Sun King.
Who is Louis XIV?
French society was legally divided into these three social orders.
What are the Three Estates?
This thinker attacked religious intolerance and frequently criticised the institutional Church.
Who was Voltaire?
This group paid feudal dues, taxes and often Church tithes while producing much of France’s food.
Who were the peasants?
Clothing, posture and objects in elite portraits were used to communicate this rather than simply record appearance.
What is social status?
Louis XVI became king of France in this year.
What is 1774?
This estate contained most of the French population but possessed the fewest formal privileges.
What is the Third Estate?
This philosopher argued that legitimate political authority rested upon the “general will.”
Who was Rousseau?
What is 'Danton'?
Portraits of aristocratic children reinforced the idea that elevated social position could be acquired through this.
What is birth or inheritance?
This royal residence functioned as both the centre of court culture and a symbol of monarchical power.
What is Versailles?
Unlike a modern social class, membership of an estate was principally determined by this legal characteristic.
What is a legally-defined Privilege?
This Enlightenment principle demanded that people should be judged under common laws rather than according to inherited status.
What is legal equality?
Despite being privileged, many members of the nobility opposed royal reforms because they feared the expansion of this form of power.
What is absolutism?
The highly staged nature of elite portraiture makes it useful for studying values, but less reliable as evidence of this.
What is ordinary or everyday life?
The First Estate consisted primarily of members of this institution.
What is the Catholic Church?
The Ancien Régime was vulnerable not simply because inequality existed, but because different groups increasingly viewed this inequality as this.
What is unjust, unfair, or illegitimate?
Enlightenment ideas did not automatically cause revolution, but they became politically explosive by providing critics with this.
What is the language of revolution?
Who is Kirsten Dunst?
This nickname was used to insult the Austrian princess who married Louis XVI.
What is 'L'Autrichienne'?
The Second Estate consisted of this privileged social group.
What is the nobility?