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• Scenes from a Bourgeois Life — is an autobiographical novel by the British author Alaric Jacob, first published in 1949.ummaryThe book is an apologia for the paradoxes and anomalies of the author s own career. Jacob had drifted into journalism and become a Reuter s… …   Wikipedia

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• bourgeois — bour|geois [ˈbuəʒwa: US burˈʒwa:] adj [Date: 1500 1600; : French; Origin: person who lives in a town , from Old French borjois, from borc town , from Latin burgus castle, town defended by a wall ] 1.) belonging to the ↑middle class ▪ She came… …   Dictionary of contemporary English

• bourgeois — [[t]bʊ͟ə(r)ʒwɑː[/t]] 1) ADJ GRADED (disapproval) If you describe people, their way of life, or their attitudes as bourgeois, you disapprove of them because you consider them typical of conventional middle class people. He s accusing them of… …   English dictionary

• Bourgeois tragedy — (German: Bürgerliches Trauerspiel) is a form of tragedy that developed in 18th century Europe. It was a fruit of the enlightenment and the emergence of the bourgeois class and its ideals. It is characterized by the fact that its protagonists are… …   Wikipedia

• Family of d'Ailleboust —     Family of d Ailleboust     † Catholic Encyclopedia ► Family of d Ailleboust     (1) Louis d Ailleboust     Sieur de Coulanges, third Governor of Canada, date of birth unknown; died in Montreal 31 May, 1660. He came to Canada in 1643. He was… …   Catholic encyclopedia

• Bourgeois — Recorded in many forms including Bourges, Bourgaize, Bourgeois, (France), Burgess, Burges and Burgis (England and Scotland), Borghese, Borgesio and Burgisi (Italy), and others, this interesting surname is of pre 8th century Old French origins. It …   Surnames reference

• Bourgeois, Louise — born Dec. 25, 1911, Paris, Fr. French born U.S. sculptor. She studied briefly with Fernand Léger and initially worked as a painter and engraver. In the late 1940s, after moving to New York City with her American husband, she turned to sculpture.… …   Universalium

• Francis Bourgeois — Sir Peter Francis Bourgeois (1753 1811), English Swiss, was a landscape painter and court painter to George III. He lived with his French partner Nöel Desenfans and his Welsh wife Margaret Morris. The three lived together in a house in Charlotte… …   Wikipedia

• Medici family — Italian bourgeois family that ruled Florence and later Tuscany from с 1430 to 1737. The family, noted for its often tyrannical rulers and its beneficent patrons of the arts, also provided the church with four popes (Leo X, Clement VII, Pius IV,… …   Universalium

• The Addams Family — are a group of fictional characters created by American cartoonist Charles Addams. Earlier Addams had worked in collaboration with his friend Ray Bradbury. In a 2001 interview Bradbury states that after failing to find a publisher, they went… …   Wikipedia