In 1982, the Paris Metro began to abandon the distinction between first and second class. Ostensibly, this was merely a change in service organization. In reality, it became a symbol of the end of old France, the decline of the bourgeois world of prestige, and the birth of mass society. First class didn't disappear because all French people became wealthier. It began to disappear because all of France was gradually becoming one large second clas…
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In 1982, the Paris Metro began to abandon the distinction between first and second class. Ostensibly, this was merely a change in service organization. In reality, it became a symbol of the end of old France, the decline of the bourgeois world of prestige, and the birth of mass society. First class didn't disappear because all French people became wealthier. It began to disappear because all of France was gradually becoming one large second clas…