The ancien régime was the
A. estate that comprised the clergy in pre-revolutionary France.
B. old order in France that revolutionary leaders wanted to replace.
C. term for the first democracies in Greece and Rome.
D. term Metternich used to describe the dangerous and growing class of urban revolutionaries.
E. traditional, European-born ruling class in South America.
Answer: B
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