Abstract
Abstract The bourgeoisie is one of those historical phenomena that seems to be omnipresent in crucial developments of the European past, and at the same time eludes serious analysis by historians and other social scientists.1 As one of them summarized the problem three decades ago: ‘The trouble with the middle class is that it is always rising ‘. Even though the bourgeoisie ‘s destiny seems obviously enough the age of modernity, and its origins were surely to be found in the medieval town, the intermediate stages proved to be extremely hard to chart: somehow the bourgeoisie failed to appear at almost every rendezvous planned by its academic pursuers. With the destruction of the Industrial Revolution as a unifying concept, and the by now unanimous opinion that, whatever it may have been, the French Revolution was definitely not a bourgeois revolution, the last landmarks have disappeared.
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