regime

So the Ancient Regime was black and coloured in looks, their nobility was visible in the face, and it ended with the French revolution in 1789. Yet there were some restorations and nobles and Kings came back and wielded absolute power. But it finally ended in 1848. History was then white washed, museums were founded to show a whitened, revisionist history. The public was shown white, propagandistic images of the Great Man, persons who are described as black and brown etc. or can be understood to have been brown or black in looks