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Tate glossary definition for flâneur: French term meaning ‘stroller’ or ‘loafer’ used by nineteenth-century French poet Charles Baudelaire to identify an observer of modern urban life
tate.org.uk →Baudelaire identified the flâneur in his essay The Painter of Modern Life (1863) as the dilettante observer. The flâneur carried a set of rich associations: the man of leisure, the idler, the urban explorer, the connoisseur of the street. Such a figure can be seen featured in many impressionist paintings. The flâneur has become an important figure for scholars, artists and writers and was taken up in the twentieth century by the Situationists . Does this text contain inaccurate information or language that you feel we should improve or change? We would like to hear from you.
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thumb|Paul Gavarni, , 1842
' () is a type of urban male "stroller", "lounger", "saunterer", or "loafer". This French term was popularized in the 19th century and has some nuanced additional meanings (including as a loanword into various languages, including English). Traditionally depicted as male, a is an ambivalent figure of urban affluence and modernity, representing the ability to wander detached from society, for an entertainment from the observation of the urban life. is the act of strolling, with all of its accompanying associations. A near-synonym of the noun is .