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Parisians in the Country · Theme
Social Mobility and Class
How Parisians in the Country develops Social Mobility and Class.
Characters like the Milaud family rise from bourgeois origins to nobility through royal favor and marriage, while the commercial traveler navigates multiple social strata, highlighting the fluidity and pretensions of class in post-Revolutionary France.
Where it surfaces
- The Muse of the Department
Dinah's marriage and subsequent affair with Lousteau highlight the tensions between provincial gentility and Parisian bohemianism.