• The bourgeoisie originally used the fragile boxes to hold snuff, fake beauty marks and hard candies.

    FORBES: Enamored by enamels

  • Jairam Ramesh, of India's ruling Congress party, blames the difference on the Indian bourgeoisie.

    ECONOMIST: China's cup overflows; India catches the spillage

  • Hals figures into history as a stylist, but also a contractor to the bourgeoisie.

    NEWYORKER: Haarlem Shuffle

  • "This growing demand for luxury goods is being driven by the new bourgeoisie, " he said.

    WSJ: Luxuries Flow Into North Korea

  • Mahinda, from Hambantota, represents the rural south, the Buddhist provincial bourgeoisie, rather than the urban elite.

    ECONOMIST: Sri Lanka

  • The authors speculate that the new middle class is not an aspiring bourgeoisie of petty businessmen.

    ECONOMIST: Economics focus: The in-betweeners | The

  • Schemes he has been steering through the corridors of Brussels will soon be changing the life of Europe's bourgeoisie.

    ECONOMIST: Mario Monti, Europe��s taxman-in-chief

  • Public and private building was urgently needed, and the explosion of Nancy's bourgeoisie powerfully stimulated demand for tasteful household goods.

    ECONOMIST: Decorative arts

  • Just as radical artists like nothing better than baiting the bourgeoisie, Mr Buckley was at his happiest baiting the liberal establishment.

    ECONOMIST: Lexington

  • If the markets turn on Belgium, will the Flemish bourgeoisie see Mr De Wever as a man of principle or a chancer?

    ECONOMIST: Charlemagne

  • Alienated from both the aristocracy and the bourgeoisie, the young men were left to perceive the world through the lens of their loneliness.

    NEWYORKER: Inside Story

  • The Flamant brothers, sons of an antiques dealer, opened their first shop in Antwerp 30 years ago, bringing well-made, well-priced, modern interpretations of antique pieces to the bourgeoisie.

    CNN: Flanders: Europe's best-kept design secret

  • Germans began to acquire the board-game habit with the rise of the bourgeoisie in the 19th century, partly because they were deemed to be good training for young minds.

    ECONOMIST: German recreation

  • At sales of collections from grandees like Frederick, Prince of Wales, and Princess Amelia, the bourgeoisie bought the oil paintings, bronze sculptures and decorative masterpieces that transformed them into faux aristocrats.

    FORBES: In the House

  • During the French Revolution, Parisian women had requested the right to wear trousers and working-class revolutionaries became known as "sans-culottes" for wearing trousers instead of the silk-knee breeches preferred by the bourgeoisie.

    BBC: Paris women finally allowed to wear trousers

  • But compared with their Islamic, Indian, and Chinese counterparts they were latecomers, originally interested in importing luxury Asian goods for the European nobility and bourgeoisie in exchange for wool and woollen products or silver and gold.

    ECONOMIST: The once and future boom

  • These then morphed into "banks for bankers" - clearing houses which would mop up liquidity among the middle and upper classes and spread it through the private banking system (in the lobby of the Bank of England there is a nice painting of the English bourgeoisie queuing up at Threadneedle Street on Dividend Day by George Elgar Hicks).

    BBC: Central banks are part of the state

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