I think at your age, with your appearance, that your name is worth at least two million francs in the eyes of a rich 'roturier' with an ambitious daughter. ".    From Wordnik.com.  [The Parisians — Complete] Reference

This Monsieur Le Prun -- what was he at first but a roturier -- no better than myself -- and made his own money -- fortune may yet befriend me also.    From Wordnik.com.  [The International Magazine, Volume 2, No. 2, January, 1851] Reference

He wisely felt, and frankly acknowledged, that, their glory was essential to his own; and he invited to a seat at his table, Moliere the roturier, to whom the lowest of his nobles would have appointed.    From Wordnik.com.  [The International Monthly Magazine, Volume 5, No. 1, January, 1852] Reference

Sir, it is only a roturier whom death, or anything else, takes by surprise.    From Wordnik.com.  [Godolphin, Complete] Reference

I have a great dislike to the thought of being revolutionised into a roturier.    From Wordnik.com.  [Godolphin, Complete] Reference

"Oh, it was not with a roturier she fled; her pride would not have allowed that.".    From Wordnik.com.  [The Parisians — Complete] Reference

The whiskers of a roturier, my good Lankin, grow as long as the beard of a Plantagenet.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Christmas Books of Mr. M.A. Titmarsh] Reference

(roturier) from all eternity, unless you can produce a regular and complete set of parchments.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Philosophical Dictionary] Reference

The noble has gone down on the social ladder, and the roturier has gone up; the one descends as the other rises.    From Wordnik.com.  [Democracy in America — Volume 1] Reference

No, no, equal both --- both on the table-land of gentility, and qualified to look down on every roturier in Scotland. ''.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Antiquary] Reference

Here the only result of the emancipation of the roturier has been to reinvigourate his old enemy the noble by the provision of new blood and new economic energy.    From Wordnik.com.  [Political Parties; a Sociological Study of the Oligarchical Tendencies of Modern Democracy] Reference

"I should not wait for the roturier if he had not promised me a roti," said the Vicomte de Breze, with a pitiful attempt at the patrician wit of the ancien regime.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Parisians — Complete] Reference

As far back as they could look, they saw only the tyranny of one class and the degradation of another, -- Frank and Gaul, knight and villein, gentleman and roturier.    From Wordnik.com.  [Miscellaneous Writings and Speeches — Volume 2] Reference

The seigniors themselves largely benefited by the capitalization in money of their old rights, and by the untrammelled possession of land held en franc aleu roturier.    From Wordnik.com.  [Lord Elgin]

Measures were first passed better to facilitate the optional commutation of the tenure of lands en roture into that of franc aleu roturier, but they never achieved any satisfactory results.    From Wordnik.com.  [Lord Elgin]

"You think the King's justice is to be driven headlong by the voice of any impudent roturier?.    From Wordnik.com.  [Scaramouche] Reference

No, no, equal both — both on the table-land of gentility, and qualified to look down on every roturier in Scotland.”.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Antiquary] Reference

'roturier' has ceased to exist.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Ancien Regime] Reference

Ah! she'll take in some rich roturier, I hope. ".    From Wordnik.com.  [Godolphin, Complete] Reference