BOURGEOISIE in a Sentence

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Their starting point is bourgeois despotism, which in culture becomes the cultural despotism of the bourgeoisie.

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 Meanings and Examples of BOURGEOISIE
Definition Example Sentence Classic Sentence
bourgeoisie
 n.  the social class between the lower and upper classes
Classic Sentence:
1  One of the false ideas of the bourgeoisie under the Restoration as regards aristocracy and the nobility was to believe in the particle.
Les Misérables 3 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 4: CHAPTER I—A GROUP WHICH BARELY MISSED BECOMING HISTORIC
2  The bourgeoisie loves tragedy, and the bourgeoisie must be left at peace on that score.
Les Misérables 3 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 4: CHAPTER III—MARIUS' ASTONISHMENTS
3  Because the bourgeoisie is interest which has reached satisfaction.
Les Misérables 4 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1: CHAPTER II—BADLY SEWED
4  The attempt has been made, and wrongly, to make a class of the bourgeoisie.
Les Misérables 4 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1: CHAPTER II—BADLY SEWED
5  The bourgeoisie is simply the contented portion of the people.
Les Misérables 4 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1: CHAPTER II—BADLY SEWED
6  This has often been the fault of the bourgeoisie.
Les Misérables 4 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1: CHAPTER II—BADLY SEWED
7  The bourgeoisie then, as well as the statesmen, required a man who should express this word Halt.
Les Misérables 4 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1: CHAPTER II—BADLY SEWED
8  These souvenirs connected with a king rendered the bourgeoisie enthusiastic.
Les Misérables 4 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1: CHAPTER III—LOUIS PHILIPPE
9  It puts the army to the test; it consecrates the bourgeoisie, it draws out the muscles of the police; it demonstrates the force of the social framework.
Les Misérables 4 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 10: CHAPTER I—THE SURFACE OF THE QUESTION
10  Thus speaks that approximation to wisdom with which the bourgeoisie, that approximation to the people, so willingly contents itself.
Les Misérables 4 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 10: CHAPTER I—THE SURFACE OF THE QUESTION
Example Sentence:
1  The new bourgeoisie, which was created by the Industrial Revolution, had money to spend and wanted to travel.
2  Their starting point is bourgeois despotism, which in culture becomes the cultural despotism of the bourgeoisie.