Talk:Ancien Régime
Latest comment: 14 years ago by DCDuring in topic RFC discussion: June 2006–October 2009
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Needs to be de-Wikipedia-ified, split into two separate entries, etc. --Connel MacKenzie T C 01:28, 15 June 2006 (UTC)
- Please elaborate. Doremítzwr 13:00, 15 June 2006 (UTC) (Author of entry)
- Okay, but from the etymology it appears to be a borrowed word in English as well. 59.112.50.163 22:21, 15 June 2006 (UTC)
- Yes it is, but I thought the English meaning was less specific, just being a pejorative reference to a previous ruling body, eg the previous management of a business which has since been taken over (and thus able to be used in the plural, though I forget the plural form) rather than just referring to the French aristocracy, as in the present def. But I could be wrong. --Enginear 16:04, 17 June 2006 (UTC) (This comment applies more properly to ancien régime.) --Enginear 01:46, 18 June 2006 (UTC)
I don't agree that there is a distinction between Ancien Régime and ancien régime. The lower-case version is regularly used for the specific pre-Revolutionary sense (in both languages). Widsith 16:07, 17 June 2006 (UTC)
- This entry seems wiktified. Last comment doesn't indicate that this entry is in any way wrong, AFAICT. DCDuring TALK 18:11, 19 October 2009 (UTC)