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Pronunciation: [d͡ʒˈɛntɪlhˌɒm] (IPA)

Gentilhomme is a French term used to describe a gentleman or a nobleman. There are many synonyms for this word depending on the context of its usage and the degree of its formality. Some of the common synonyms for gentilhomme include aristocrat, noble, lord, gentleman, blue-blood, patrician, and scion. These synonyms are often used in literature, history, and society to describe individuals of high social status who possess impeccable manners, refinement, and sophistication. Other synonymous terms for gentilhomme include the French words monsieur and seigneur, which also denote respect and reverence as expressions of politeness and good manners.
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  • The courtly person (cortegiano, gentilhomme, gentleman, Hofmann) has gone through a training in self-esteem that expresses itself in many ways: in aristocratically pretentious opinions, in polished or majestic manners, in gallant or heroic patterns of feeling as well as in a selective, aesthetic sensitivity for that which is said to be courtly or pretty. The noble, far removed from any self-doubt, should achieve all this with a complete matter-of-factness. Any uncertainty, any doubt in these things signifies a slackening in the nobility’s cultural “identity.” This class narcissism, which has petrified into a form of life, tolerates no irony, no exception, no slips, because such disturbances would give rise to unwelcome reflections. The French nobles did not turn up their noses at Shakespeare’s “barbarism” without reason. In his plays one already “smells” the human ordinariness of those who want to stand before society as the best. With the ascendancy of the bourgeoisie, the place of the “best” is awarded anew. The bourgeois ego, in an unprecedented, creative storming to the heights of a new class consciousness won for itself an autonomous narcissism.
    Peter Sloterdijk

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