In the context of the Revolution, the term is used of those relatively wealthy and politically active members of the middle classes, the professionals and gentlemen of independent means.
(boor-ZWAH) French: middle-class; common
A word of French origin used in some forms of sociology to describe the emerging middle classes.
a capitalist who engages in industrial commercial enterprise
a member of the middle class
(according to Marxist thought) being of the property-owning class and exploitive of the working class
conforming to the standards and conventions of the middle class; "a bourgeois mentality"
belonging to the middle class
(from ‘burghers') - The economically dominant (and thus ruling) class in a capitalist society, the bourgeoisie owns the means of production and employs wage labour; this class stands in opposition to the working class.
(n.) -- in Marxist theory, a capitalist, or owner of the means of production and distribution.
Originally related to burgher -- i.e., a citizen of a burg -- and now generally taken to mean a typical middle-class person with middle-class moral, economic and other values. Bourgeois can be both an adjective and a noun; in the latter case, strictly speaking, it means a male. When a female is meant, bourgeoise is the term used. Bourgeoisie means the middle class in general. Haute bourgeoisie means the upper middle class, who might be better described as capitalists. Bourgeois, as might be imagined, appears frequently in Marxist writing.