2006-11-28 08:52:43 · 6 answers · asked by trouble 1 in Society & Culture ➔ Languages
common, everyday citizens.
2006-11-28 09:00:02 · answer #1 · answered by mesquitemachine 6 · 1⤊ 2⤋
It refers to the middle classes. Before the French revolution, the populace was divided into aristocrats and peasants. With the social turnabout, a new breed of citizen emerged: the town dweller who was engaged in business and made the economic wheels turn round. Bourgeois is literally a "town dweller". In time they came to be despised because of their stable respectability and their attitude of conformity. In French there is nothing wrong with being called bourgeois. As used in English, bourgeois means being a stickler for middle class values.
2006-11-28 09:23:24 · answer #2 · answered by Doethineb 7 · 2⤊ 0⤋
average people during the French Revolution like the commoners...merchants/farmers........middle and lower class....but not the wealthy or nobles or monarchs
2006-11-28 09:02:59 · answer #3 · answered by xo_cuddly_kitten_xo 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
It's a french word "bourgeois" means middle-class man :-)
2006-11-28 09:01:38 · answer #4 · answered by Dali 2 · 3⤊ 0⤋
Associated or having to do with the middle class.
2006-11-28 09:00:05 · answer #5 · answered by n8.nate 2 · 2⤊ 1⤋
Common people....sort of like peasants. The lowe and middle class...no one special. Not nobility or royalty.
2006-11-28 08:55:25 · answer #6 · answered by nottashygirl 6 · 1⤊ 2⤋