Very interesting debate, over the pages of
Le Figaro
, between Olivier Babeau and Pierre Vermeren on the origins of hostility to the bourgeoisie.
Allow me to add an additional document to the file which shows why this hostility is not the same according to the face of the bourgeoisie it stigmatizes, one conservative and traditionalist, the other innovative, even “revolutionary”.
These two versions of the bourgeois made their first appearance in all of Paris the same year, in 1830. Indeed, it was in 1830 that Guizot became Minister of the Interior at the same time as M. Prudhomme, the stage character invented by Henry Monnier in
popular Scenes, drawn in pen
.
But Prudhomme and Guizot will embody for centuries to come the two antithetical faces of the bourgeois world: on the one hand, the provincial notable, conservative and simpleton, who defends the values of tradition with clichés;
on the other, the liberal passionate about innovation.
From Guizot, popular imagery…
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