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The Modern French word bourgeois (/ ˈ b ʊər ʒ w ɑː / ⓘ BOORZH-wah or / b ʊər ˈ ʒ w ɑː / ⓘ boorzh-WAH, French: ⓘ) derived from the Old French borgeis or borjois ('town dweller'), which derived from bourg ('market town'), from the Old Frankish burg ('town'); in other European languages, the etymologic derivations include the Middle English burgeis, the Middle Dutch burgher, the ...
Under them, there were the peasants, artisans and the bourgeois. This stratification was present in all regions of Spain. Some nobles and monasteries wielded considerable power in their locality, administering justice, levying fees, collecting taxes, and imposing feudal rights and services, from which they obtained rents and products from the ...
Bourgeois revolution is a term used in Marxist theory to refer to a social revolution that aims to destroy a feudal system or its vestiges, establish the rule of the bourgeoisie, and create a capitalist state. [1] [2] In colonised or subjugated countries, bourgeois revolutions often take the form of a war of national independence.
Valerie Sanders, writing about The Bourgeois in Times Higher Education, described the book as follows: "Moretti’s purpose, in this short, epigrammatic study of a class that sits awkwardly in the power structure it supposedly influences, is to examine the bourgeois 'refracted through the prism of literature.' His contention, by the end, is ...
Léon Victor Auguste Bourgeois (French: [leɔ̃ buʁʒwa]; 21 May 1851 – 29 September 1925) was a French statesman. His ideas influenced the Radical Party regarding a wide range of issues. He promoted progressive taxation such as progressive income taxes and social insurance schemes, [ 1 ] along with economic equality , expanded educational ...
beurgeois, from beur and bourgeois; Cocacolonization, from Coca-Cola and colonization [2] copaganda, from cop and propaganda; democrazy, from democracy and crazy [51] Demoncrat, from demon and Democrat; Eracism, from erase and racism; feminazi, from feminist and Nazi; Gerrymander, from Elbridge Gerry and salamander [52] [2] kayaktivism, from ...
Épater la bourgeoisie or épater le (or les) bourgeois is a French phrase that became a rallying cry for the French Decadent poets of the late 19th century including Charles Baudelaire and Arthur Rimbaud. [1] It means "to shock or scandalise the (respectable) middle classes." [2]
Bobo is a portmanteau word used to describe the socio-economic bourgeois-bohemian group in France, the French analogue to the English notion of the "champagne socialist".The geographer Christophe Guilluy has used the term to describe France's elite class, whom he accuses of being responsible for many of France's current problems.