Épater la bourgeoisie
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Épater la bourgeoisie
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Épater la bourgeoisie or épater le bourgeois is a French phrase that became a rallying cry for the French Decadent poets of the late 19th century including Charles Baudelaire and Arthur Rimbaud. It means "to shock or scandalise the (respectable) middle classes." The Decadents, fascinated as they were with hashish, opium, and absinthe, found, in Joris-Karl Huysmans' novel À rebours (1884), a sexually perverse hero who secludes himself in his house, basking in life-weariness or ennui, far from the
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French phrase
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/%C3%89pater_la_bourgeoisie
date created:
2007-01-21T02:05:40Z
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2024-08-05T03:13:26Z
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