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:
Institutions
Art, literature and music
Surname "Bourgois"
Bourgeois may also refer to:
- Petite bourgeoisiePetite bourgeoisiePetit-bourgeois or petty bourgeois is a term that originally referred to the members of the lower middle social classes in the 18th and early 19th centuries...
- Bourgeois AlternativeBourgeois AlternativeCivic Alternative is a local political party in Hørsholm, Denmark. BA was launched by a local Venstre personality, Ib Lunde Rasmussen, who felt dissatisfied with the local Venstre leadership....
, Danish political party - Bourgeois dictatorshipClass struggleClass struggle is the active expression of a class conflict looked at from any kind of socialist perspective. Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels wrote "The [written] history of all hitherto existing society is the history of class struggle"....
, how western countries were portrayed by the Eastern bloc during the Cold WarCold WarThe Cold War was the continuing state from roughly 1946 to 1991 of political conflict, military tension, proxy wars, and economic competition between the Communist World—primarily the Soviet Union and its satellite states and allies—and the powers of the Western world, primarily the United States...
. - Bourgeois liberalismBourgeois liberalismBourgeois liberalism refers to either parliamentary democracy or Western popular culture. The foundations for bourgeois liberalism is that of Adam Smith's writing The Wealth of Nations, seen in 19th-century classical economic liberalism. The French term bourgeois' origins are that of 'middle...
- Bourgeois nationalismBourgeois nationalismBourgeois nationalism is a term from Marxist phraseology. It refers to the alleged practice by the ruling classes of deliberately dividing people by nationality, race, ethnicity, or religion, so as to distract them from possible class warfare...
- Bourgeois personality
- Bourgeois pseudoscienceBourgeois pseudoscienceBourgeois pseudoscience was a term of condemnation in the Soviet Union for certain scientific disciplines that were deemed unacceptable from an ideological point of view....
- 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 SerriffeSan SerriffeSan Serriffe is a fictional island nation created for April Fools' Day, 1977, by Britain's Guardian newspaper. An elaborate description of the nation, using puns and plays on words relating to typography , was reported as legitimate news, apparently fooling many readers...
, named after the Bourgeois font
Institutions
- H. L. Bourgeois High SchoolH. L. Bourgeois High SchoolH. L. Bourgeois High School , is a public high school in Gray, Louisiana named after Henry Louis Bourgeois, an educator from Terrebonne Parish, Louisiana...
, Gray, Louisiana
Art, literature and music
- Bourgeois tragedyBourgeois tragedyBourgeois Tragedy 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...
- Le Bourgeois gentilhommeLe Bourgeois GentilhommeLe Bourgeois gentilhomme is a five-act comédie-ballet—a play intermingled with music, dance and singing—by Molière, first presented on 14 October 1670 before the court of Louis XIV at the Château of Chambord by Molière's troupe of actors...
, a play by Molière - Le Bourgeois gentilhomme (Strauss)Le Bourgeois gentilhomme (Strauss)Le bourgeois gentilhomme, Op. 60, is an orchestral suite written by Richard Strauss between 1911 and 1917. The original idea of Hugo von Hofmannsthal was to revive Molière's 1670 play Le Bourgeois gentilhomme, simplify the plot and introduce a commedia dell'arte troupe, add some incidental music...
, an orchestral suite by Richard Strauss - Les BourgeoisLes BourgeoisLes Bourgeois is Jacques Brel's sixth studio album. Also known as Jacques Brel, the album was released in April 1962 by Barclay Records...
, a song (and album) by Jacques Brel - "The Bourgeois BluesThe Bourgeois Blues"The Bourgeois Blues" is a blues song by Huddie Ledbetter, better known as Lead Belly. It was written after Lead Belly went to Washington, D.C. at the request of Alan Lomax, to record a number of songs for the Library of Congress. After they had finished, they decided to go out with their wives to...
", blues song - The Discreet Charm of the BourgeoisieThe Discreet Charm of the Bourgeoisie-External links:* at Rotten Tomatoes* * Roger Ebert's review of *...
, a film by Luis Buñuel
People
Surname "Bourgeois"- Albéric BourgeoisAlbéric BourgeoisAlbéric Bourgeois is credited with creating the first continuing comic strip to use word balloons in Canada.-External links:* ;*....
(1876 – 1962), Canadian comic strip artist - Brent BourgeoisBrent BourgeoisBrent Thomas Bourgeois is an American rock musician, songwriter, and producer. He was co-leader of the band Bourgeois Tagg with Larry Tagg, and has released several solo albums. His later work has been classified in the genres Pop and Contemporary Christian Music.- Early career :Born in New...
, U.S. rock musician and producer - Constant BourgeoisFlorent Fidèle Constant BourgeoisFlorent Fidèle Constant Bourgeois, a French landscape painter, engraver, and lithographer, was born in Paris in 1767. He studied under David, but spent much of his time in Italy. Landon mentions him as an artist distinguished for the richness of his compositions and the purity of his style, and...
, French landscape painter and engraver - Dana BourgeoisDana BourgeoisDana Bourgeois is a luthier who heads a small guitar shop, Pantheon Guitars, in Lewiston, Maine.He makes traditionally styled acoustic guitars used in bluegrass and other acoustic music genres....
, luthier - Derek BourgeoisDerek BourgeoisDerek Bourgeois is an English composer. Educated at Cambridge University , he spent two years at the Royal College of Music studying composition with Herbert Howells and conducting with Sir Adrian Boult.From 1970 to 1984 he was a lecturer in music at Bristol University, and then Director of the...
(born 1941), English composer - Diane BourgeoisDiane BourgeoisDiane Bourgeois is a Canadian politician. She was a Bloc Québécois Member of the Canadian House of Commons, representing the riding Terrebonne—Blainville from 2000 until 2011...
(born 1949), Canadian politician - Douglas BourgeoisDouglas BourgeoisDouglas Bourgeois is an American sculptor and figurative painter who was born in Gonzales, Louisiana and grew up in St. Amant, Louisiana. He received a BFA from Louisiana State University in 1974....
(born 1951), American sculptor and painter - Francis BourgeoisFrancis BourgeoisSir Peter Francis Bourgeois was an English-Swiss landscape painter and court painter to George III. He lived with his French partner Noel Desenfans and Desenfans's Welsh wife Margaret Morris. The three lived together in a house in Charlotte Street, London...
(1756–1811), landscape painter and court painter to George III - Joël BourgeoisJoël BourgeoisJoël Denis Bourgeois is a middle- and long-distance runner competing for Canada. He won the gold medal for Canada in the men's 3000 metres steeplechase event at the 1999 Pan American Games in Winnipeg, Canada...
(born 1971), Guyanese-Canadian distance runner - Léon BourgeoisLéon Bourgeois-Biography:He was born in Paris, and was trained in law. After holding a subordinate office in the department of public works, he became successively prefect of the Tarn and the Haute-Garonne , and then returned to Paris to enter the ministry of the interior...
(1851–1925), French statesman - Louis Bourgeois (architect)Louis Bourgeois (architect)Jean-Baptiste Louis Bourgeois was a Canadian architect who is best known as the designer of the Bahá'í House of Worship in Wilmette, Illinois, USA....
(1856–1930), architect - Louise BourgeoisLouise BourgeoisLouise Joséphine Bourgeois , was a renowned French-American artist and sculptor, best known for her contributions to both modern and contemporary art, and for her spider structures, titled Maman, which resulted in her being nicknamed the Spiderwoman...
(1911–2010), artist and sculptor - Loys (Louis) BourgeoisLoys BourgeoisLoys "Louis" Bourgeois was a French composer and music theorist of the Renaissance. He is most famous as one of the main compilers of Calvinist hymn tunes in the middle of the 16th century...
(c.1510 to 1515–1559 or later), composer - Paulette BourgeoisPaulette BourgeoisPaulette Bourgeois, CM is best known for creating Franklin the Turtle, the character who appears in picture books illustrated by Toronto native Brenda Clark. The books have sold more than 60 million copies around the world and have been translated into 38 languages...
(born 1951), Canadian children's writer - Father Roy BourgeoisRoy BourgeoisRoy Bourgeois is an American activist. He was ordained a priest in the Maryknoll order of the Roman Catholic Church and is founder of the human rights group SOA Watch or the School of the Americas Watch....
, human rights activist - Siméon BourgeoisSiméon BourgeoisSiméon Bourgois was a 19th-century French Navy vice-admiral who was especially involved in the development of early submarines. He was born in Thionville, Lorraine, on March 26, 1815, and died in Paris on December 24, 1887....
(1815–1887), 19th century French Navy officer - Victor BourgeoisVictor BourgeoisVictor Bourgeois was a Belgian architect and urban planner, considered the greatest Belgian modernist architect....
, Belgian Modernist architect
Surname "Bourgois"
- Philippe BourgoisPhilippe BourgoisPhilippe Bourgois is a Richard Perry University Professor of Anthropology & Family and Community Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania. He also served as founding Chair of the Department of Anthropology, History and Social Medicine at the University of California, San Francisco from 1998...
, a professor of anthropology and the author of ethnographic works
Biology
- Bourgeois is a synonym for these wine grapes:
- ElblingElblingElbling is a variety of white grape which today is primarily grown in the upstream parts of the Mosel region in Germany and in Luxembourg, the vineyards of which are also located along Moselle River...
, in the Mosel region - Gouais blancGouais BlancGouais Blanc or Weißer Heunisch is a white grape variety that is seldom grown today but is important as the ancestor of many traditional French and German grape varieties. The name Gouais derives from the old French adjective ‘gou’, a term of derision befitting its traditional status as the grape...
, historic white grape
- Elbling
- Bourgeois fish, a common name for Lutjanus sebaeLutjanus sebaeLutjanus sebae, commonly known as the emperor red snapper, bourgeois red snapper, or bourgeois fish, is a snapper from the Indo-West Pacific. It is fished for food and occasionally makes its way into the aquarium trade. It grows to a size of 116cm in length....
, a snapper from the Indo-West Pacific