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They reasserted their rights in the insurrection of July 1830 — the kind of liberal revolution they would have preferred back in 1789 — paving the way for the “bourgeois monarchy” of Louis-Philippe.
Take the métro to Rambuteau and start at the corner of the rue des Archives and the rue des Francs-Bourgeois, named after the poor (not bourgeois at all) allowed to live here tax-free in the 14th century.
The story follows a bourgeois small-town couple with a dry cleaning business whose lives are turned upside down after a young drag performer they meet in a club ends up moving in with them.
Since 1772, the church of Notre-Dame-de-Bonsecours, 400 rue Saint-Paul Est, has stood on the site of a chapel that was built for the colony’s first schoolteacher, Marguerite Bourgeois, but destroyed by fire.
Encyclopedias, after all, are middlebrow, bourgeois books that tend, in the end, not to promote intellectual inquiry on the part of the people who use them but rather to stifle it.