The Bohemian term, precisely because of its vagueness, is very widespread. There is even who uses it to refer to a bad student.
However, we can specify it a little by placing it as a typical representative of their way of life in a given time. Its apogee corresponds to the second half of the XIX and the first of the XX, and its habitat to Paris. Without deepening excessively we qualify as bohemians those individuals who, being unable to change society, do without it. But if we stay exclusively in this, it will be facial to create confusion. We would take as bohemians the vagabonds of beer drinkers. There are indeed many common points between the clochards and them, but not an identity.
Perhaps the clochards are truer and their nihilistic stance completely removes them from all formalism. Bohemians on the other hand are subject to the dictatorship of form. They have self-built in a certain way, but they need society. They need it, paradoxically, for it to see what they have gotten by moving away from it: their art, their silence, their contempt.
