The Discreet Charm of the Bourgeoisie (French: Le Charme discret de la bourgeoisie) is a 1972 comedy-drama film directed by Luis Buñuel from a screenplay...

opportunities being lost to the bourgeoisie. In the 17th century, the nobility of the sword began to demand that the new nobility of the robe be limited in its access...

November 1870 in Strasbourg. She was from the Bellaigues, a solid bourgeoisie de robe in Nancy. When Alsace became part of Germany after the Franco-Prussian...

while the bourgeoisie gained noble status. Moreover, corruption was rife, with many bourgeoisie simply attaching the noble particle 'de' to their name...

feature in Spain is the almost general usage of the nazareno or penitential robe for some of the participants in the processions. This garment consists of...

peasants resented the feudal rule and both the local nobles and the bourgeoisie were being left out of any active civil and military role, with the viceroy...

sharbūsh, a three-quarters length robe, and boots. Arab figures, in contrast, have different headgear (usually a turban), a robe that is either full-length or...

and the state), and by creating countervailing powers (the bourgeoisie, the noblesse de robe). By the late 17th century, any act of explicit or implicit...

his subjects were frequently Parisian women who belonged to the upper bourgeoisie. His work was popular in both France and America, and the emperor Napoleon...

derived from the title "Eminence" applied to cardinals and from the red robes that they customarily wear. Consecrated a bishop in 1607, Richelieu was...

inspired by Viandier de Taillevent, which already contained the recipe for potjevleesch. In the major cloth-producing towns, the bourgeoisie also held banquets...

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made for money" (Case fatte per soldo, usually wealthy landowning or bourgeoisie families who contributed to the state during the War of Candia and the...

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title of baron was assumed as a titre de courtoisie by many nobles, whether members of the Nobles of the Robe or cadets of Nobles of the Sword who held...

various parlements, were ennobled by the king, constituting the noblesse de robe. The old nobility of landed or knightly origin, the noblesse d'épée, increasingly...

grapevine pest. The century saw the accumulation of capital in an enriched bourgeoisie class, that invested in the incipient industrial development. The municipality...

the greater reliance that was shown by the royal court on the noblesse de robe as judges and royal counselors. The creation of regional parlements had...

de mode. Passé means past, passed, or (for a colour) faded. peignoir a woman's dressing gown. It means bathrobe. In French, both peignoir and robe de...

the Cour des Aides. They were known as the Noblesse de la Grand Robe, the high nobility of the robe, because of the ceremonial costumes they wore. They...

traditional aristocracy. Courtiers and representatives of the noblesse de robe (those who derived rank from judicial or administrative posts) were underrepresented...

nobles, and a Third Estate of all other subjects (both peasants and bourgeoisie). In some regions, notably Sweden and Russia, burghers (the urban merchant...

fashion, the increasing affluence of early modern Europe led to the bourgeoisie and even peasants following trends at a distance, but still uncomfortably...

spread beyond the royal court into the salons and cafés of the ascendant bourgeoisie. The exuberant, playful, elegant style of decoration and design that...

Soviet government considered a reactionary ideologue of the monopolistic bourgeoisie of India and a promoter of consumerism in a traditional Hindu guise....

1972 When the Legends Die October 22, 1972 The Discreet Charm of the Bourgeoisie US theatrical distribution only; re-released in 2000 by Rialto Pictures...

clients, who were primarily from the assimilated Jewish Viennese Haute bourgeoisie. He cultivated intimate relationships especially with his models from...

the nobility to limit the conspicuous consumption of the prosperous bourgeoisie. Bourgeois subjects appearing to be as wealthy as or wealthier than the...

national teams. Several Bretons have won the Tour de France: Bernard Hinault, Louison Bobet, Jean Robic and Lucien Petit-Breton as riders, and Cyrille Guimard...

134 Example of the range of the social novel in which the educated bourgeoisie is represented: "Because from Wilhelm Meister onwards to the Buddenbrooks...