Chateaubriand against the throne, --an ungrateful opposition based on ignoble interests, which was one cause of the triumph of the bourgeoisie and journalism in 1830.
It is to please the bourgeoisiethat royalty makes itself unpopular.
The bourgeoisie will accept any thing rather than the emancipation of the proletariat.
A confederation of the bourgeoisie against the laborers, and against the king.
It is the bourgeoisie which makes and unmakes ministries.
It is the bourgeoisie which, more than any other class, is conservative and retrogressive.
It is the bourgeoisie which has destroyed the influence of the Upper Chamber, and which will dethrone the King whenever he shall become unsatisfactory to it.
It is the bourgeoisie which is troubled at the hopes of the people, and which hinders reform.
Of this nation of snobs and shopkeepers, ruled by a combination of stockbrokers, heavy-witted bourgeoisie and political adventurers?
But this France of the bourgeoisie must first be saved, so that we may make out of it the foundation for the throne of the great Louis.
Between these centres of the rising power of the bourgeoisie arose mutual dissensions and quarrels with the already hostile lords and bishops, and the country was more than ever the scene of wars innumerable.
They were still in the bourgeoisie quarter, and they had come to make a king in their own image, as God made man after His own image.
The bourgeoisie saw in the king its own reflection, and gazed with complacency at its own image, up to the moment when it discovered how ugly it was, and then it broke the glass.
The situation was so lofty that the blinking eyes of that bourgeoisie lowered, utterly dazzled, before they could raise themselves to such a height.
This was how the bourgeoisie began its reactionary work the very same day that popular enthusiasm and triumph was at its height.
Four very distinct classes of individuals are active in the midst of this political furnace: the nobles or gros, the clergy, the bourgeoisie and the peasantry or leasehold farmers.
The bourgeoisie are, therefore, the interior of the triangle formed by the nobility, which lays down its laws, the clergy who preach them and the people who accept them.
Fortunately, however, the Sixteen had disgusted the upper bourgeoisie by their demagogic airs; while their open alliance with Philip II.
But now that the bourgeoisie was raised to power it did not prove itself any more liberal than the aristocracy of birth and fortune in dealing with educational, fiscal and industrial questions.
The prisons were already becoming crowded; the richerbourgeoisie had become submissive.
Cesar Birotteau, a Royalist, in favor and envied, had been made the mark of bourgeois hostility, while bourgeoisie triumphant found its incarnation in Crevel.
I do not think that he takes delight in shocking the bourgeoisie as Shaw does.
With a firm faith in this theory, it is no wonder that he often manifests annoyance at the slowness of the bourgeoisie in carrying out the part assigned them in the Marxian program.
The influence of her husband over the count, proved in so many years, prevented the small bourgeoisie from laughing at Madame Moreau, who, in the eyes of the peasants, was really a personage.
Consequently, no festivity was ever given among the bourgeoisie to which Monsieur and Madame Moreau were not invited.
The individualism of the feudal lords, the particularism of the cities and of the corporations had been replaced by the individualism and the particularism of the bourgeoisie and of the popular classes.
I said then, "If thebourgeoisie think we are ready to act as lightning-conductors, they are mistaken.
During the first two years of the Revolution it is, on the whole, the best informed and most liberal portion of the bourgeoisie which, in the department as in the district, undertakes the management of affairs.
There is no illusion here; it is not merely the bourgeoisie which ranges itself against the legal authorities and against the established regime.
During this fearful night, the bourgeoisiekept themselves shut up, each trembling at home for himself and those belonging to him.
It is plain that there is a plot against the people: the government, the Queen, the clergy, the nobles are all parties to it; and likewise the magistrates and the wealthy amongst the bourgeoisie and the rich.
The bourgeoisie of Plombières, however, for fear of compromising themselves, oblige them to depart.
The Russian Revolution was not a class revolution, it was brought about neither by the proletariat nor by the bourgeoisie and the aristocracy; all classes contributed, it was a national revolution.
He says that an enlightened bourgeoisie will be just as likely to be Socialist as the working classes, and that therefore the class struggle is merely "a grandiloquent and aggressive figure of speech.
In Kautsky's view the bourgeoisieis driven by the fear of Socialism, in a country like Germany to reaction, and in one like England to attempt reform.
The democratic State offers such a field of battle; there the final decisive struggle between bourgeoisie and proletariat can best be fought out.
In the meantime they, too, must play this game carefully, being constantly on their guard against doing anything that would alarm or antagonize the bourgeoisie and sacred businesses and telling the workers to wait until we get in.
The first thing it does is to increase its strength with the bourgeoisie and the great middle class always allied with its enemies.
It may be, of course, that the young men and women of the lower bourgeoisiewill forswear the dot, for it would be but one more old custom giving way to necessity.
A few of the other girls were passably good-looking but she was the only one with anything like beauty--which, it would seem, is practically confined to the noblesse and grande bourgeoisie in France.
These were either of the industrial class, or of that petite bourgeoisie whose husbands, called to the colors, had been small clerks and had made just enough to keep their usually childless wives in a certain smug comfort.
French society has no conception of the word, and neither noblesse nor bourgeoisie has the faintest intention of taking it up as a study.
As the vast majority of the peasant farmers and petite bourgeoisie had been used to sleeping in airtight rooms they suffered bitterly during that first long winter and spring in the open.
The bourgeoisie "want" to exploit the proletariat, and do it remarkably well.
Between the proletariat and the bourgeoisie a struggle, an implacable war, a war to the knife, is as inevitable as, was in its way, the struggle between the bourgeoisie and the privileged estates.
For many a decade past the history of industry and commerce is but the history of the revolt of modern productive forces against the property relations that are the conditions for the existence of the bourgeoisie and its rule.
Hegel, in his "Philosophy of History," makes fun of the Utopian bourgeoisie in search of the best of constitutions.
The scared bourgeoisie does not know what to do against them.
It is by such considerations as you suggest that France is being lowered, and the bourgeoisie are bringing themselves into contempt.
Thuillier, in whom the jealousy between the two classes of the bourgeoisie was fully roused, "take offices away from those fellows and they'd fall back where they came.
Setting aside the political question," replied the young man, whose voice and accent were those of a native of Provence, "it is certainly true that the bourgeoisiehas ill understood its mission.
The bourgeoisie has, even more than the aristocracy whose place it has been called upon to take, the obligations of the highest virtues.
In becoming, as it were, nearly the whole of France, the bourgeoisie owed to us the prosperity of the people, splendor without ostentation, grandeur without privilege.
The bourgeoisie think much more of what their notary tells them than of what their attorney says.
But, before manifesting itself magnificently, the bourgeoisiehas other duties to fulfil towards France.
This invective against the bourgeoisie was uttered in a tone of heated conviction which could scarcely fail to be communicated.
But the French bourgeoisie has now taken upon itself to create a new dynasty, a royalty of its own, and behold how it treats it!
The Thuilliers and their predecessors have frequently degraded this jewel of the upper bourgeoisie by the habits and inventions of the lesser bourgeoisie.
It is easy to explain the deplorable profanation practised on this monument of the private life of the bourgeoisie of the seventeenth century, by the private life of the bourgeoisie of the nineteenth.
Assuredly," said the young man, "I am far from belonging to the dynastic party; I am very far from approving of the rise of the bourgeoisie to power.
If the War got beyond the control of the Second International, its immediate consequences will get beyond the control of the bourgeoisie of the entire world.
It supported the bourgeoisie in its conflicts with alien enemies for national liberation; also in its conflicts with the monarchy, with feudalism and the church for political democracy.
But in accomplishing it the capitalist states were led to struggle for the subjection of the world-embracing economic system to the profit interests of the bourgeoisie of each country.
It is not the national aspirations of the Serbs, Poles, Roumanians or Finns that has mobilized twenty-five million soldiers and placed them in the battlefields, but the imperialistic interests of the bourgeoisie of the Great Powers.
Since 1848 the German bourgeoisie has renounced revolutionary methods for solving its problems.
The German bourgeoisie may grumble now and then when the pretorian caste spirit of the officers' corps leads to outbreaks like that of Zabern.
This eagerness of the leading bourgeoisie to adopt, at least the outward show of Socialism, was caused by a great change that had come over the working classes of Germany.
This change may be dated from 1840, from the moment when the bourgeoisie of Prussia assumed the lead of the middle class movement of Germany.
The bourgeoisie of Germany was by far not as wealthy and concentrated as that of France or England.
The working class in Germany is, in its social and political development, as far behind that of England and France as the German bourgeoisie is behind the bourgeoisie of those countries.
The first class "drawn from the nobility and from the best of the bourgeoisie have pretensions only, without being of the true ministry.
If the nobles dress like the bourgeoisie it is owing to their having become bourgeois, that is to say, idlers retired from business, with nothing to do but to talk and amuse themselves.
The fiefs, for the most part, were in the hands of the bourgeoisie of the towns.
The proletariat shall have everything, and he begins by killing off noble and bourgeoisie and dividing up the loot!
The bourgeoisiemust die because of his benefactions to a people.
The rogue and the fool cannot combine unless the bourgeoisie is obliterated.
It breaks up old nationalities and carries the antagonism of proletariat and bourgeoisie to the uttermost point.
With the change in economic conditions, with the growth of manufacture, the rise of the bourgeoisie meant the downfall of feudalism.
In fact, the Prater is quite the Paradise of the bourgeoisie of Vienna, who are fond of the pleasures of the table and take every opportunity of making dinner and supper parties.
