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What (who) is épater - definition
epater
[e?'pate?]
¦ verb (in phr. epater les bourgeois) shock people regarded as conventional or complacent.
Origin
from Fr.
epater les bourgeois
shock people regarded as conventional or complacent.
Épater la bourgeoisie
or (or ) is a French phrase that became a rallying cry for the French Decadent poets of the late 19th century including Charles Baudelaire and Arthur Rimbaud.Decadence It will not translate precisely into English,Oxford Reference but is usually rendered as "to shock or scandalise the (respectable) middle classes.
