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The pines would also enrich landowners and the Bordeaux bourgeoisie: The hardscrabble culture of sheep grazing gave way to a booming industry of wood, paper and resin.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 30, 2026

Not for him were the depictions of the lives and leisure of the wealthy or the bourgeoisie favored by Renoir, Cassatt and Morisot.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 24, 2025

"The Viennese bourgeoisie took them to cafes and shopping, and showed them the local monuments," he added.

From Barron's ● Nov. 13, 2025

Will this acrid-tongued, 69-year-old multimillionaire, a child of the rural Catholic haute bourgeoisie, turn out to be a latter-day Churchill, standing astride the tides of history?

From Salon ● Mar. 2, 2025

The people who had marched in triumph went to watch the bourgeoisie standing in line and fighting to get through the doors of the banks, and roared with laughter.

From "The House of the Spirits: A Novel" by Isabel Allende

At this hour, you are the only one who can speak to all alike—to the common people and to the bourgeoisies of the nations.

From The Forerunners by Romain Rolland

One might wonder indeed if Anarchism, an essentially bourgeois doctrine, had not found adepts among the French bourgeoisie, the most blasée of all bourgeoisies.

From Anarchism and Socialism by Georgii Valentinovich Plekhanov

The city bourgeoisies that had previously resisted the government, now supported it in this one particular, persecution of the Anabaptists.

From The Age of the Reformation by Preserved Smith

The protectionism and the exclusiveness of the bourgeoisies are brought to an end.

From The Stages in the Social History of Capitalism by Henri Pirenne