““When I was a boy—a bourgeois boy—that term was applied to my social class by the class above it. Bourgeois meant ‘not aristocratic, therefore vulgar.’ When I was in my twenties this changed. My class was now vilified by the class below it; bourgeois began to mean ‘not proletarian, therefore parasitic, reactionary.’ Thus it has always been a reproach to assign a man to that class which has provided the world with nearly all its divines, poets, philosophers, scientists, musicians, painters, doctors, architects, and administrators.”27 Damrosch, Leo. The Club (Kindle Locations 2419-2424). Yale University Press. Kindle Edition. ”

— Bourgeois