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  • A parvenu is a person who is a relative newcomer to a high-ranking socioeconomic class. The word is borrowed from the French language; it is the past...
    9 KB (1,064 words) - 21:00, 25 February 2025
  • Parvenu Point (67°34′S 67°17′W / 67.567°S 67.283°W / -67.567; -67.283) is a low but prominent point forming the north extremity of Pourquoi Pas Island...
    610 bytes (106 words) - 20:31, 21 November 2015
  • The Parvenus (Slovene: Jara gospoda) is a 1953 Yugoslav historical drama film directed by Bojan Stupica and starring Vladimir Skrbinsek, Elvira Kralj and...
    2 KB (190 words) - 21:53, 7 May 2024
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    Le Paysan parvenu is an unfinished novel by Pierre de Marivaux. Five parts by Marivaux appeared from May 1734 to April 1735, and an ending was added by...
    5 KB (748 words) - 19:37, 24 October 2024
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    Mademoiselle de Terville by Madeleine d'Arsant de Puisieux, Le Philosophe parvenu ou Lettres et pièces originales contenant les aventures d'Eugène Sans-Pair...
    122 KB (14,355 words) - 03:15, 28 March 2025
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    noblesse d'épée, increasingly resented the influence and pretensions of this parvenu nobility. In the last years of the ancien régime the old nobility pushed...
    88 KB (10,384 words) - 13:52, 17 March 2025
  • Gyu-young, Kwon Yul, Hwang Hee, and Yeonwoo. It is about the romance between a parvenu who lacks education, and the daughter of a prestigious family who tries...
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  • religious tolerance over pure economic self-interest". Often referred to as parvenu, members of the nouveau riche are often discriminated against by the old-money...
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    and they will fulfill our wishes. Because the House of Pahlavi were a parvenu house – as Reza Khan had begun his career as a private in the Persian Army...
    238 KB (30,362 words) - 18:17, 27 March 2025
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    Trimalchio—an allusion to the Latin work Satyricon—the plot followed the rise of a parvenu who seeks wealth to win the woman he loves. For source material, Fitzgerald...
    179 KB (19,421 words) - 19:41, 25 March 2025
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    traitor Classicide Classless society Euthenics High society Nouveau riche / Parvenu Poverty Ranked society Snobbery Social cleansing Social exclusion Social...
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    and introduced her treatment of the Jewish diaspora as either pariah or parvenu. In addition it represents an early version of her concept of history....
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    defend their spiritual progenitor against aspersions cast by an American parvenu." "1912 Harry Houdini 'Water Torture Cell' Presentation Piece from Circus...
    108 KB (12,989 words) - 22:44, 27 March 2025
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    Miniseries or a Movie Jesus Mary Television miniseries Hey Arnold! Madame Parvenu Voice; episode: "Polishing Rhonda" 2000 Britannic Lady Lewis Television...
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    two important but unfinished novels, La Vie de Marianne and Le Paysan parvenu. His father was a Norman financier whose name from birth was Carlet, but...
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    her voluntary system—our Tories hate her democrats—our Whigs hate her parvenus—our Radicals hate her litigiousness, her insolence, and her ambition. All...
    90 KB (11,015 words) - 13:20, 20 March 2025
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    employees, in addition to weak legs and was sold as a three-year-old in 1892. Parvenu (sired by Uncas, out of Necromancy) was purchased by Smith in 1891 as a...
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    Tragedy of Joachim and Caroline Murat (Methuen, 1972) Margery Weiner, The Parvenu Princesses: Elisa, Pauline and Caroline Bonaparte (John Murray, 1964)...
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    traitor Classicide Classless society Euthenics High society Nouveau riche / Parvenu Poverty Ranked society Snobbery Social cleansing Social exclusion Social...
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  • romantic comedies. After their heyday, bachelor pads were more bohemian than parvenu bourgeoise, with old food and dirty dishes and clothing being strewn about...
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