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France’s first postaristocratic dandies, the muscadins, Mr. Andersson tells us, were “foppishly dressed anti-Terror shopkeepers.”

From The Wall Street Journal • Jan. 15, 2026

With one voice the audience demanded the hymn dear to the muscadins and the gilded youth, the R�veil du peuple,—The Awakening of the People.

From The Gods are Athirst by Jackson, Emilie

This attracting the muscadins in great numbers, not long since obtained for that part of the Boulevard the appellation of Petit Coblentz.

From Paris as It Was and as It Is by Blagdon, Francis W.

"By muscadins is meant all citizens of that age not married, and exercising no useful profession," in other words, those who live on their income.

From The French Revolution - Volume 3 by Durand, John