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Like Edgar Degas and Édouard Manet in the previous generation of French painters, Bonnard (1867-1947) was born into the high bourgeoisie (his father served in the upper echelons of the War Ministry), and like those painters he had a taste for the demimonde.
He made vicious fun of the English bourgeoisie in plays such as The Importance of Being Earnest . The same bourgeoisie packed London houses and made him a fortune without realizing the joke was on them.
The bourgeoisie showed off its new prosperity with extravagant furnishings, silks, satins, and baubles, and in 1852 Paris opened its first department store, Au Bon Marché.
The armies of Frederick’s successors proved to be no match for Napoleon’s Grande Armée, however, and as the French advanced through eastern Germany in 1806, Berlin’s bureaucracy, court, and bourgeoisie fled to the country.
While Lukacs is right to point out that Hitler "was contemptuous of [the bourgeoisie's] caution, of their thrift, ...