Beginning life in the late 19th and early 20th Centuries as modest subdivisions for the working class, these much-coveted neighbourhoods are now home to the city's bourgeois-bohemian, but nevertheless retain an authentic atmosphere that evokes a Paris of days gone by.
You only have to scratch the surface of Richmond's proud, bourgeois exterior to find the real economic difficulties that lie beneath.
Had Mme Bourgeois's bequest been the only complication, Mr Robinson might still be a minister today.
Crowds of sympathizers gathered at the lawmaker's house in a bourgeois Nairobi suburb.
But as befits this stranger-than-fiction tale, Mme Bourgeois's tax-sheltered offshore bequest played its part in undoing Mr Robinson's political career.
She recalled visiting Louise Bourgeois's studio in the early 1990s.
Two years later, one of Emin's idols, Louise Bourgeois, asked her to collaborate on a series of drawings titled "Do Not Abandon Me, " exploring themes of sexuality and female identity.
In Shakespeare's plays, the only major bourgeois character, Antonio, is a fool because of his affection for Bassanio.
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The slum dweller's grim surroundings kept him from developing bourgeois virtues.
Keane begins a few days following Havel's birth, where the true extent of his bourgeois upbringing is fully pronounced.
Elsewhere, he tries on attitudes for size: a critique of romantic bourgeois intellectuals here, a slap at U.S. media hustlers there.
He also knew the French Impressionists' paintings of expansive avenues, exquisite vistas and elegant bourgeois society that marked the stunning transformation of Napoleon III's Paris into a gleaming, modern metropolis.
Also, if gay people wish to lead conventionally bourgeois lives by getting married, that may be lunacy on their part but it's a credit to our values.
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