"bourgeois" is a perfectly acceptable and commonly used word in written English.
It describes people who have a moderate amount of wealth and are considered to be part of the middle class. For example, you could say, "The bourgeois family lives in a respectable suburban neighborhood."
The financial crisis and the great recession, indeed depression, undermined many of the assumptions of bourgeois triumphalism.
The selling of perfect relationships and some bourgeois idea of normality is actually a total turn-off.
For all its bourgeois trappings, Lyon was then, and is now, a pretty violent place – far nastier, in my experience, than Marseille.
Much posturing occurs in bourgeois circles about respecting difference, alongside talk of the value of empathy.
Following the exile of Captain Alfred Dreyfus after his wrongful conviction for spying for Germany against France, his wife, Lucie, was portrayed as a bourgeois heroine, the epitome of the dutiful Victorian spouse.
My next destination was Lyon, which has the reputation for being the most uptight and bourgeois city in France.
Or go headlong into the hip Yppenplatz Markt in a Croat-Turkish neighbourhood, a big draw for the "bobos" – the bourgeois bohemians who like to be seen sipping local beer at some of the colourful outdoor cafes.
This compact, beautiful, bourgeois, capital was the cynosure of many currents of modernism.
But they also help the party to forge connections with extra-parliamentary groups in the way the Greens were able to do before they became an establishment party for bourgeois-bohemians (and, of late, simply for the bourgeoisie, who are even willing to endorse coalitions with the Christian Democrats).
And the marvellously named Victor Gauntlett, vintage-car driver and pilot, looks gloriously suburban haut-bourgeois, with his study full of The Miracle of Speed symbols in pictures and models, while the room's decoration and furnishings are all Home Counties 1919 in sympathies.
