Word: ancien
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Citizens: A Chronicle of the French Revolution by Simon Schama (1989). An immensely readable work of distinguished scholarship that guillotined many of the romantic myths about the beginnings of French democracy, notably that the ancien regime was hopelessly reactionary and the masses supported free trade and religious toleration...