Jeunesse Dorée

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Webster's Dictionary [1]

Lit., gilded youth; young people of wealth and fashion, esp. if given to prodigal living; - in the French Revolution, applied to young men of the upper classes who aided in suppressing the Jacobins after the Reign of Terror.

The Nuttall Encyclopedia [2]

Gilded youth), name given to a body of young dandies who, after the fall of Robespierre, strove to bring about a counter-revolution.

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