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poverty as an aesthetic choice, made by people who could theoretically call their parents.
means a lifestyle that prizes art, unconventional living, and freedom from bourgeois norms over money, stability, or a matching couch.
from 19th-century french called nonconformist artists bohemiens, wrongly assuming they descended from romani travelers passing through bohemia; the mislabel stuck to garret-dwelling painters and poets in the latin quarter.
coined bybalzac and the parisian press, mid-1800s
literary boostmurger's scenes de la vie de boheme, 1851
opera legacypuccini's la boheme immortalized the starving-artist romance
modern descendantthe word bobo, bourgeois bohemian, mocks its sellout