User:Zorono Ornitorrico/Citoyen
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The Citoyen ([sito̯aˈjɛ̃ː]; French citoyen to old French citeain, a derivative of cité 'city', this from Latin civitas 'citizenship', 'state') is a member of a social class, that arose in the17th century. It was particularly characterized by the fact that it participates in the formation of the community in the spirit of the Enlightenment. Therefore, the Citoyen can be understood as a kind of French intellectual and cultural elite, comparable to the German Bildungsbürgertum and the Eastern European Intelligentsia [1].