French revolutionaries used it first to distinguish the common man from the reviled aristocracy, then to enforce their reign of terror on both.

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The only ones losing wealth were the aristocracy, who depended on their titles to extract money from those who worked.

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Alienated from both the aristocracy and the bourgeoisie, the young men were left to perceive the world through the lens of their loneliness.

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Rising in three generations from artisan to high middle class, the Bells were beginning to marry into the aristocracy.

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Her manner was in contrast to the sometimes-starchy rituals of traditional European hotelkeeping, which derive from a time when the aristocracy demanded deference from their social inferiors.

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