The Myth of the French Bourgeoisie: An Essay on the Social Imaginary, 1750-1850.(Reviews)(Book Review)

Journal of Social History | September 22, 2004| | Copyright

The Myth of the French Bourgeoisie: An Essay on the Social Imaginary, 1750-1850. By Sarah Maza (Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2003. x plus 255 pp. $39.95).

Did France have a bourgeoisie? That is the central question of Sarah Maza's The Myth of the French Bourgeoisie, and the answer is no. In the late eighteenth century, bourgeois was a legal term that referred to those urban non-nobles who were entitled to the privileges of the town. It was also working class slang, meaning "boss," a usage that approaches the marxist definition. Bourgeois was an ...

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