Gentilhomme

Then M. de Montrond rose covered with glory and with honor, for in such adventures lay the fame of the gentilhommes of that time.

What they are doing is taking a view of life just a bit wider than that of the average London Regent’s Park smarty or the bourgeois gentilshommes.

Outside in a spacious, leafy courtyard complete with table service, Double Bay matrons rub shoulders with trendies and gentilshommes of every description.

And in spite of several omissions (Mrs. Clemens, their daughters, Susy and Clara, a companion for Mrs. Clemens and two servants were actually along), there is an implicit, underlying contract with the reader, providing the assurance that this journey was not invented out of whole cloth in Samuel Clemens's study back in Hartford, but that it actually took place, that it went approximately as described and that this fraternal pair of bourgeois gentilshommes is real.

The salons became schools for assimilation into aristocratic manners. From women, bourgeois gentilhommes learned how to comport themselves.

[…] Maud would introduce her to society and help her find a husband from the gentilhommes of the local château aristocracy.