 The same was true of the greater reliance shown by the royal court on the as judges and royal counselors.The creation of regional had initially the same goal of facilitating the introduction of royal power into newly-assimilated territories, but as the gained in self-assurance, they began to become sources of disunity.The term "Ancien Régime" first appeared in print in English in 1794, and was originally pejorative in nature; Simon Schama has observed