Contemporary European rulers included Philip V of Spain, John V of Portugal, George I of Great Britain, Charles VI, Holy Roman Emperor, and Victor Amadeus II of Sardinia, the maternal grandfather of Louis XV.

There were seven parts of the Polysynody all of which had their own ministers for the Regency: The Men The Women The Régence marked the temporary eclipse of Versailles as centre of policymaking, since the Regent's court was at the Palais Royal in Paris.

It marked the rise of Parisian salons as cultural centres, as literary meeting places and nuclei of discreet liberal resistance to some official policies.

During the Régence, court life moved away from Versailles and this artistic change became well established, first in the royal palace and then throughout French high society.

The Régence is also the customary French word for the pre-independence regimes in the western North African countries, the so-called Barbary Coast.