Bourgeois (disambiguation)

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:

• Petite bourgeoisie
• Bourgeois Alternative, Danish political party
• Bourgeois dictatorship, how western countries were portrayed by the Eastern bloc during the Cold War.
• Bourgeois liberalism
• Bourgeois nationalism
• Bourgeois personality
• Bourgeois pseudoscience
• 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 Serriffe, named after the Bourgeois font

Institutions

• H. L. Bourgeois High School, Gray, Louisiana

Art, literature and music

• Bourgeois tragedy
• Le Bourgeois gentilhomme, a play by Molière
• Le Bourgeois gentilhomme (Strauss), an orchestral suite by Richard Strauss
• Les Bourgeois, a song (and album) by Jacques Brel
• "The Bourgeois Blues", blues song
• The Discreet Charm of the Bourgeoisie, a film by Luis Buñuel

People

Surname "Bourgeois"

• Albéric Bourgeois (1876 – 1962), Canadian comic strip artist
• Brent Bourgeois, U.S. rock musician and producer
• Constant Bourgeois, French landscape painter and engraver
• Dana Bourgeois, luthier
• Derek Bourgeois (born 1941), English composer
• Diane Bourgeois (born 1949), Canadian politician
• Douglas Bourgeois (born 1951), American sculptor and painter
• Francis Bourgeois (1756–1811), landscape painter and court painter to George III
• Joël Bourgeois (born 1971), Guyanese-Canadian distance runner
• Léon Bourgeois (1851–1925), French statesman
• Louis Bourgeois (architect) (1856–1930), architect
• Louise Bourgeois (1911–2010), artist and sculptor
• Loys (Louis) Bourgeois (c.1510 to 1515–1559 or later), composer
• Paulette Bourgeois (born 1951), Canadian children's writer
• Father Roy Bourgeois, human rights activist
• Siméon Bourgeois (1815–1887), 19th century French Navy officer
• Victor Bourgeois, Belgian Modernist architect

Surname "Bourgois"

• Philippe Bourgois, a professor of anthropology and the author of ethnographic works

Biology

• Bourgeois is a synonym for these wine grapes:
  • Elbling, in the Mosel region
  • Gouais blanc, historic white grape
• Bourgeois fish, a common name for Lutjanus sebae, a snapper from the Indo-West Pacific

See also

• All pages beginning with "Bourgeois"
• All pages with titles containing "Bourgeois"
• Bourgeoys (disambiguation)