"beau monde" meaning in English

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          "text": "...and I am sure you will permit me to invite a friend or two, for you know I only deal with choice spirits, the élite of the beau monde.",
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          "text": "But the intellectuals one meets are something else again. I didn't behave well with the mental beau monde of Chicago.",
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          "text": "After finding the studio in West Kensington, and just before starting Pernel’s portrait, he spent an evening at the Kennedy’s where, he told Carrington excitedly, he met ‘a charming beau-monde blonde . . . who with her brightness and stoutness combined with some languishing glances, succeeded in half-ravishing me’.",
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