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Flâneur (French: [flɑnœʁ]) is a French term popularized in the nineteenth-century for a type of urban male "stroller", "lounger", "saunterer", or "loafer". The word has some nuanced additional meanings (including as a loanword into English). Traditionally depicted as male, a flâneur is an ambivalent figure of urban affluence and modernity, representing the ability to wander detached from society with no other purpose than to be an acute observer of industrialized, contemporary life. Flânerie is the act of strolling, with all of its accompanying associations. A near-synonym of the noun is boulevardier. The flâneur was first a literary type from 19th-century France, essential to any picture of the streets of Paris. The word carried a set of rich associations: the man of leisure, the idler, the urban explorer, the connoisseur of the street. However, the flâneur's origins are to be found in journalism of the Restoration, and the politics of post-revolutionary public space.[1] Drawing on th

Flâneur - Wikipedia Flâneur From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Jump to navigation Jump to search Idler or man of leisure "Boulevardier" redirects here. For the drink, see Boulevardier (cocktail) . For the cartoon, see Boulevardier from the Bronx . "Passante" redirects here. For the railway in Milan, see Milan Passante railway . Paul Gavarni , Le Flâneur , 1842 Flâneur ( French: [ flɑnœʁ ] ) is a type of urban male "stroller", "lounger", "saunterer", or "loafer". This French term was popularized in the 19th century and has some nuanced additional meanings (including as a loanword into variou

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