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(usually in the plural) The middle class.

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An individual member of the middle class.

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(usually derogatory) A person of any class with bourgeois (i.e., overly conventional and materialistic) values and attitudes.

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(history) An individual member of the bourgeoisie, the third estate of the French Ancien Regime.

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A capitalist, (usually derogatory) an exploiter of the proletariat.

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To make bourgeois.

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Of or relating to the middle class, their presumed overly conventional, conservative, and materialistic values.

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bourgeois opinion

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Of or relating to the bourgeoisie, the third estate of the French Ancien Regime.

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Of or relating to the capitalist class, (usually derogatory) the capitalist exploitation of the proletariat.

Boccaccio, the contented bourgeois, succeeded to Dante, the fierce aristocrat.

But the acceptance of a portfolio in a bourgeois ministry led to his exclusion from the Unified Socialist party (March 1906).

The conditions which have the five been described, of despotism, mercenary warfare and bourgeois prosperity, determined the character of this epoch, which was also the period when the great achievements of the Renaissance were prepared.

Charles and Rene of Anjou retired from court, and the greater part of the members of the king's council were drawn from the bourgeois classes.

There are four main classes or crus (literally growths, but more correctly types or qualities), namely, the " grands crus classes " or " classed growths " and the bourgeois, artisan and peasant growths.

That in plain clothes, en bourgeois, as the French call it, is not so numerous, but fulfils a higher, or at least a more confidenti mission.

He had exchanged his moderate republicanism for radical views before he became war minister in the cabinet of Leon Bourgeois (1895-1896).

Personally Daunou was reserved and somewhat austere, preserving in his habits a strange mixture of bourgeois and monk.

The reports which he drew up upon educational questions drew attention to him, and on the 3rd of November 1895 he entered the Bourgeois cabinet as minister of public instruction, resigning with his colleagues on the 21st of April following.

Dissensions among the citizens, or between the nobles and the bourgeois, frequently ended in the adoption of a podestat.

The new Assembly which had met on the 1st of October 179 had a majority favorable to the constitutional monarchy and to the bourgeois franchise.

The Bolsheviks, having killed a number of imprisoned " bourgeois," abandoned the city and the whole region after heavy losses.

In 1921 the total number of Socialists of every complexion in the House of Deputies was 141, as opposed to 137 Bourgeois members (Czechoslovaks 199, Germans 72, Magyars 7).

In the Senate the Socialists numbered 68, as against 75 Bourgeois members (Czechoslovaks 103, Germans 37, Magyars 3).

Leon Bourgeois as president of the committee appointed to deal with the FrancoGerman treaty, the necessity for the ratification of which he demonstrated.

Palmerston, indeed, who did not believe that under the Bourgeois Monarchy France would translate her brave words into action, was in favour of settling the Turco-Egyptian question once for all by depriving Mehemet Ali of Egypt as well.

But, even when all conscious bias is eliminated, the unconscious bias remains, and Rankes history of the Reformation is essentially a middle-class, even bourgeois, presentment.

Guesde, nevertheless, continued to oppose the opportunist policy of Jaures, whom he denounced for supporting one bourgeois party against another.

This time events worked in his favour; the industrial insurrection of June made the middle classes and the mass of the rural population look for a saviour, while it turned the industrial population towards Bonapartism, out of hatred for the republican bourgeois.

The whole feudal system crumbled before the revolutionary insistence of the peasants; for their masters, bourgeois or nobles, terrified by prolonged riots, capitulated and gradually had to consent to make the resolutions of the 4th of August a reality.

La Fayettes fusillade of the republicans, who demanded the deposition of the king (July 17, 1791), led to a definite split between the democratic party and the bourgeois party.

He is also a retired investment banker, and is also a petty bourgeois landlord.

A regime of bourgeois Bonapartism in Russia or Poland would not be a stable regime.

But when one leaves, one is expected to leave, become a bourgeois.

That makes an impression on the despairing petty bourgeois.

In the Goblet ministry of1886-1887he was minister of public instruction, and in the Bourgeois cabinet of1895-1896he held the portfolio for foreign affairs.

As minister of finance in the Bourgeois cabinet (from the 3rd of November 1895 to the 21st of April 1896) he tried without success to introduce an income-tax.

If, as has been claimed, Louis owed to them any of his tendency to prefer the society of the poor, or rather of the bourgeois, to that of the nobility, their example was his best lesson in the craft of kingship. In June 1436, when scarcely thirteen, he was married to Margaret (c. 1425-1445), daughter of James I.

When the Assembly, by the law of the 31st of May 1850, restricted universal suffrage and reduced the number of the electors from 9 to 6 millions, he was able to throw upon it the whole responsibility for this coup d'etat bourgeois.

Between the two came the Flame, the Marais, the troop of trembling bourgeois, sincerely attached to the Revolution, but very moderate in the defence of their ideas; some seeking a refuge from their timidity in hard-working committees, others partaking in the violence of the Jacobins out of weakness or for reasons of state.

To cut off all danger from royalists or terrorists the Convention now voted the Constitution of the year III.; suppressing that The con- of 1793, in order to counteract the terrorists, and stitution re-establishing the bourgeois limited franchise with of the election in two degreesa less liberal arrangement than year!!!.

Thus the bourgeois republic reaped the fruits of its predecessors external policy.

It also managed to engage private interests in state reform by creating the Grand Livre de la Dette Publique (September 1326, 1793), and enlisted peasant and bourgeois savings in social reforms by the distribution and sale of national property.

Leaning on the bourgeois, conservative, liberal and anti-clerical republicans, they were no more able than was the Thermidor party to re-establish the freedom that had been suspended by revolutionary despotism; they created a ministry of police, interdicted the clubs and popular societies, distracted the press, and with partiality undertook the separation of Church and State voted on the 18th of September 1794.

The growing disposition of the bourgeois and artisan classes, not in the large towns only, to imitate the intellectuals in desiring to live in closer touch with the rest of Europe as regards social, economic, scientific and political progress, embittered the struggle between the forces of Liberalism and those of Catholicism, powerfully entrenched in the affections of the women and the illiterate masses of the peasantry.

In point of fact, bourgeois democracy is the political formula for free trade, nothing more.

Much better to join forces with the petty bourgeois Scottish National Party in campaigning for an independent capitalist Scotland.

Blum is merely a conservative middle bourgeois who fatally gravitates to the society of the big bourgeois.

For some sections embrace a modern secular bourgeois or nationalist ideology, while other sections gravitate toward some form of secular working class response.

In the red light district, wealthy bourgeois Jane Lodge (Alexandra Delli Colli) goes to visit a live sex show.

The petty bourgeois intelligentsia, which is in every way dependent on the big bourgeois intelligentsia, which is in every way dependent on the big bourgeoisie, obtained the leadership over the peasantry.

At this point, the Labor Party changed into a purely bourgeois party almost overnight.

But, like ourselves, Luxemburg opposes any suppression of criticism, even bourgeois criticism.

It follows that under communism there remains for a time not only bourgeois law, but even the bourgeois state, without the bourgeoisie!

The Church knew as well as we do that in our era the alternative to Fascism is revolutionary Communism, and not bourgeois democracy.

Eddie Ford argues that it is an essentially bourgeois ideology, and presents a communist analysis.

For him, the capitulation of ' a completely bourgeois Parliament ' then, was the pattern for 1961.

The early 19th century bourgeois fear of the ' dangerous classes ' now returned as the fear of the growing ' underclass ' .

We get a ' bourgeois ' this and a ' bourgeois ' that and references to ' the ruling bourgeoisie ' .

The labor bureaucracy is an integral part of bourgeois society.