Old Celtic aristocracy!

The Twilight of France s Republican Aristocracy

To play involves an aristocratic disdain for results.

There's a certain amount of aristocracy.

The university was restricted to the elite aristocracy.

Will you be writing an article about the stupid and corrupt aristocracy?

Most students, and probably the leading monks and nuns, came from aristocratic families.

With the Norman Conquest, they became the ruling aristocracy of Anglo Saxon England.

The pictures in the other series trace the 12 labours of Hercules, which symbolise aristocratic might.

India In ancient India, starting in the Vedic period, the Kshatriyas formed the military aristocracy.

But revealing the skeletons in Bo s closet also meant revealing the secret world of the red aristocracy.

It was to promulgate these ideas beyond their traditionally counter revolutionary regions, Catholic society and the aristocracy.

Philip II of Spain managed to bring the aristocracy of the kingdom as support to his side.

The other ladies formed a kind of aristocracy staying upstairs in the drawingroom with their clients

All these Christian conversions primarily affected the aristocracy, while the common people remained pagan.

Subject peoples all over the Austro Hungarian empire wanted to be free from the rule of the old aristocracy and the imperial family.

True enough, some aristocratic heads rolled, but the nobility eventually returned to France.

But aristocratic habits do not die easily, even in Sarkozy s overexposed regime.

Historian Isabel de Madariaga has emphasized the role of the oprichnina in the consolidation of aristocratic power.

In this book of hours, their life is contrasted with that of the nobles, in a world whose limits are set by their lord's majestic castle.

Having destroyed an aristocracy, the French were inclined to survey its ruins with complacency.

The people that emerged from the interactions between the new Viking aristocracy and the already mixed Franks and Gallo Romans became known as the Normans.

Officers in the Ottoman Egyptian army were appointed locally from the various militias, and had strong ties to the Egyptian aristocracy.

He was a very wealthy man, and a sort of, part of the aristocracy of Britain, and on a Saturday night in Marylebone, were you part of the intelligentsia of that period, you would have been invited round to his house for a soiree and he invited everybody kings, the Duke of Wellington, many, many famous people and he would have shown you one of his mechanical machines.

The apex of the aristocratic Republic was reached under the Socialist President François Mitterrand, who ruled from 1981 to 1995.

Downfall and execution During her imprisonment in the Tower, she was interrogated for many months, but was not tortured.

At that time, refreshing in a health spa bathing, taking outdoor exercise and enjoying healing waters was fashionable amongst the aristocracy.

After the Norman conquest, the Old English language was displaced and confined to the lower social classes as Norman French and Latin were used by the aristocracy.

It is most prominent in Asian cultures but it is also typical of nobility and aristocracy in many countries and distinctively in Europe.

The early industrial era economic accomplishments occurred despite the loss of a substantial proportion of national income to support a corrupt, decadent, and profligate aristocracy.

Thanks to German manufacturers, pianos were no longer restricted to aristocratic salons or the professional middle class, but began appearing in respectable working class homes.

The whole concept of talent is that of a skill based aristocracy, that if we're not born into we're doomed to mediocrity.

Except in small, libertine aristocratic circles, where women were able to take on extra marital lovers too, the woman s role was to be a mother and domestic caretaker.

As the new owners were a handful of wealthy aristocratic families, the average citizen did not see any immediate economic and social improvements after unification, and poverty continued unabated.

In order to protect the red aristocracy, the PLAC made no mention during Gu s trial of her myriad economic crimes.

If too much deference to great artists is the mark of a society that has never quite escaped from its aristocratic roots, too little regard for them is a sign of narrow philistinism.

Unlike the other famed philosophers of the time, Han Fei was a member of the ruling aristocracy, having been born into the ruling family of the state of Han during the end phase of the Warring States period.

From its inception, the magazine targeted the new New York aristocracy, establishing social norms in a country that did not value class and ceremony as much as England or France.

Philip Augar, the author of The Death of Gentlemanly Capitalism, argues that Good characteristics of the City were thrown out along with the bad, and that Thatcher s reforms put us on a helter skelter course towards the financial crisis.

Even when well run, democracy took little interest in the distant future, aristocracy took little interest in the well being of those whom Simpson calls the little people, and monarchy took little interest in anything other than legitimate succession.

In 1815, when he was only twenty, the crown prince exerted his influence to structure the proposed new constitution of 1815, which was never actually enacted, in such a way that the landed aristocracy would hold the greatest power.

The old aristocracy not only dominated the House of Lords, but also used its influence to get relatives, friends, and family retainers elected to the House of Commons by exploiting a key institutional weakness the existence of rotten boroughs that could be bought and sold.

But some believe that there were downsides, too. Philip Augar, the author of The Death of Gentlemanly Capitalism, argues that Good characteristics of the City were thrown out along with the bad, and that Thatcher s reforms put us on a helter skelter course towards the financial crisis.

Who would not wish to live in a meritocracy? It is certainly preferable to a plutocracy, in which wealth determines status, or a gerontocracy, in which age leads one to the top, or even an aristocracy, in which what counts are inherited titles and properties.