Sentences with phrase «french ancien»

For example, under the French ancien regime people were forced to accept the religious preferences of the state (Roman catholicism).

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Across the Atlantic, mounting a frontal assault on the church of the ancien régime, the French Revolution had to present itself as an alternative religion, a regeneration of humanity under secular auspices» an impulse powerfully continued in many of the intellectual projects of the following century, reaching its apogee in the fraternité of international socialism.

Hobbes and Locke are reeling from the so - called «wars of religion,» and Rousseau had his fill of the French Catholic Church's rather too cozy relationship with the French aristocracy (the ancien regime).