Bourgeois (disambiguation)

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Bourgeois is the adjectival form of bourgeoisie, a social class characterized by their ownership of capital and their related culture.

Bourgeois may also refer to:

• Petite bourgeoisie
• Bourgeois Alternative, Danish political party
• Bourgeois dictatorship, how western countries were portrayed by the Eastern bloc during the Cold War.
• Bourgeois liberalism
• Bourgeois nationalism
• Bourgeois personality
• Bourgeois pseudoscience
• bourgeois (typography), the name of the type size between brevier and long primer
• BoBo, or Bobo, abbreviation of bourgeois bohemian, a term popularized by David Brooks in his book Bobos in Paradise
• Antonio Bourgeois, fictional character on the fictional islands San Serriffe, named after the Bourgeois font

Institutions

• H. L. Bourgeois High School, Gray, Louisiana

Art, literature and music

• Bourgeois tragedy
• Le Bourgeois gentilhomme, a play by Molière
• Le Bourgeois gentilhomme (Strauss), an orchestral suite by Richard Strauss
• Les Bourgeois, a song (and album) by Jacques Brel
• "The Bourgeois Blues", blues song
• The Discreet Charm of the Bourgeoisie, a film by Luis Buñuel

People

• Bourgeois (surname)

Biology

• Bourgeois is a synonym for these wine grapes:
  • Elbling, in the Mosel region
  • Gouais blanc, historic white grape
• Bourgeois fish, a common name for Lutjanus sebae, a snapper from the Indo-West Pacific

See also

• All pages beginning with "Bourgeois"
• All pages with titles containing "Bourgeois"
• Bourgeoys (disambiguation)