Qu'est-ce qu'un bourgeois? Qu'est-ce qu'un bourgeois? A person belonging to the middle class.A person whose attitudes and behavior are marked by conformity to the standards and conventions of the middle class.In Marxist theory, a member of the property-owning class; a capitalist.Of, relating to, or typical of the middle class.Held to be preoccupied with respectability and material values.