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  2. Bourgeoisie - Wikipedia

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    After the Industrial Revolution (1750–1850), by the mid-19th century the great expansion of the bourgeoisie social class caused its stratification – by business activity and by economic function – into the haute bourgeoisie (bankers and industrialists) and the petite bourgeoisie (tradesmen and white-collar workers). [2]

  3. Bourgeois revolution - Wikipedia

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    The German bourgeoisie during the 1848 revolution did not strive to take command of the political effort and instead sided with the crown. [18] [19] Davidson attributes their behaviour to the late development of capitalist relations and uses this as the model for the evolution of the bourgeoisie. [20]

  4. Causes of the French Revolution - Wikipedia

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    Throughout the early modern period a class of wealthy middlemen who connected producers emerged: the bourgeoisie. These bourgeoisie played a fundamental role in the French economy, accounting for 39.1% of national income despite only accounting for 7.7% of the population. [22]

  5. Revolutions of 1848 - Wikipedia

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    The uprisings were led by temporary coalitions of workers and reformers, including figures from the middle and upper classes (the bourgeoisie); [8] however, the coalitions did not hold together for long. Many of the revolutions were quickly suppressed, as tens of thousands of people were killed, and even more were forced into exile.

  6. French Revolution of 1848 - Wikipedia

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    By 1848, only about one percent of the population held the franchise. Although France had a free press and trial by jury, only landholders were permitted to vote [citation needed], which alienated the petty bourgeoisie and even the industrial bourgeoisie from the government. Louis Philippe was viewed as generally indifferent to the needs of ...

  7. Social class in France - Wikipedia

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    Following industrialization and the French Revolution altered the social structure of France and the bourgeoisie became the new ruling class. The feudal nobility was on the decline with agricultural and land yields decreasing, and arranged marriages between noble and bourgeois family became increasingly common, fusing the two social classes together during the 19th century.

  8. Opinion - How a French political movement from the 1950s ...

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    Much like Poujade’s “petite bourgeoisie,” they are taxi drivers, independent truckers and tradesmen, farmers, hair and nail salon owners, small retailers and restauranteurs.

  9. Social changes in 18th to 19th-century Prussia - Wikipedia

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    "A Prussian Officer's Quarters, 1830" (Cooper Hewitt Museum)Prussia underwent major social change between the mid-17th and mid-18th centuries as the nobility declined as the traditional aristocracy struggled to compete with the rising merchant class, which developed into a new Bourgeoisie middle class, while the emancipation of the serfs granted the rural peasantry land purchasing rights and ...