burgher

Charles IX., who afterwards became rather too fond of these invasions of burgher homes, supped with a good appetite.

The burgher races these are called, while on the third and last day are the officers' races.

But such things would not have shocked the masses of plain burgher Frenchmen at all.

Yet there was nothing ostentatious, or which seemed inconsistent with the degree of an opulent burgher.

In the first place, painting celebrated as its worthiest subject the free burgher, the tighter in the heroic struggle for freedom.