Fill in the Blanks French 'Ancien Régime'Online version French 'Ancien Régime' by Juan David Recalde V. 1 1 . The term bourgeois originated in France , where it denoted an of a walled town . Its overtones became important in the century , when the middle class of professionals , , and their literary and political allies began to demand more in politics consistent with their economic status . Marx was one of many thinkers who treated the French Revolution as a revolution of the . In Marxist theory , the bourgeoisie plays a heroic role by revolutionizing the and modernizing . However , it also seeks to monopolize the of this modernization by exploiting the propertyless proletariat and thereby creating tensions . 2 . Ancien régime as a concept comes from the that means " old order " . It was the political and social system of France prior to the . Under the regime , everyone was a subject of the of France . All rights and status flowed from the social institutions , divided into three orders : clergy , nobility , and others ( the Estate ) . There was no national citizenship .
New game