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privilege

By shag carpet bomb • Jan 31st, 2008 • Category: Books, Myth of the French Bourgeoisie, Reveries, White Privilege, this bridge we call home

I’ve been reading more of Maza’s The Myth of the French Bourgeoisie: An Essay on the Social Imaginary, 1750-1850. I came upon her discussion of the phamplets that proliferated on the eve of the French Revolution. She discusses the various evils identified by phamphleteers. One was “An Essay on Privilege” by Abbé Emmanuel-Joseph Sieyès, which […]


myth of the French bourgeoisie

By shag carpet bomb • Jan 30th, 2008 • Category: Books, Class, History, Myth of the French Bourgeoisie

Seeing as how Chuckie’s back from vaca, it reminded me to share something I’d already shared at LBO. In my latest trip to the library, I stumbled over a book that caught my eye, Sara Maza’s The Myth of the French Bourgeoisie: An Essay on the Social Imaginary, 1750-1850. I’m getting desperately, desperately bored […]