The Bourgeoisie are the ruling class, they own all the means of production within a country. They control the state, religion and media to further their own goals and maintain the proletariat as the working clas to serve them.
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Those who owned and controlled the means of production, such as large industrial complexes.
The middle class, they would be the ones that the lais-fair rose up and took down the bougeoisie
The bourgeoisie is the ruling/leech class. The bourgeoisie lives off the efforts of others and adds little if nothing to society.
Anyone who owns the means of production (productive land, factories, etc) or who makes a profit through the exploitation of wage labour -- employing someone for a wage which is less than the value their labour provides. The implication is that the member of the bourgeoisie can therefore live off of that labour, since it is creating surplus value for them. It is the bourgeoisie's monopoly over the means of production which allows them to enter into this kind of uneven exchange; the theory is that since the workers don't own the means of living, they are more or less indirectly forced by economic pressure to enter into the exchange - sell their labour - in order to get a living wage.
The Third Estate was the estate in which the bourgeoisie belonged to.
The bourgeoisie was different than the rest of the third estae