Editing Bourgeoisie (section)

===Theater===
{{lang|fr|[[Le Bourgeois gentilhomme]]}} (The Would-be Gentleman, 1670) by [[Molière]] (Jean-Baptiste Poquelin), is a comedy-ballet that [[Satire|satirises]] Monsieur Jourdain, the prototypical [[nouveau riche]] man who buys his way up the social-class scale, to realise his aspirations of becoming a gentleman, to which end he studies dancing, fencing, and philosophy, the trappings and accomplishments of a gentleman, to be able to pose as a man of [[Nobility|noble birth]], someone who, in 17th-century France, was a man to the manor born; Jourdain's self-transformation also requires managing the private life of his daughter, so that her marriage can also assist his social ascent.{{sfn|Molière|1899}}{{page needed|date=October 2020}}{{sfn|Benét|1987|p=118, 512}}