What is Trente Glorieuses?
'''''Les Trente Glorieuses''''' ({{IPA-fr|le tʁɑ̃t ɡlɔʁjøz}}, 'The Glorious Thirty') was the thirty years from 1945 to 1975 following the end of the [[Second World War]] in [[France]]. The name was first used by the French demographer [[Jean Fourastié]]. Fourastié created the term in 1979 with the publication of his book ''Les Trente Glorieuses, ou la révolution invisible de 1946 à 1975'' ('The Glorious Thirty, or the Invisible Revolution from 1946 to 1975'). The term is comes from ''[[July Revolution|Les Trois Glorieuses]]'' ('The Glorious Three'), the three days of revolution on 27–29 July 1830 in France.<ref>{{cite journal |last1=Gordon |first1=Daniel A. |title=Full Speed Ahead? The ''Trente Glorieuses'' in a Rear View Mirror |journal=Contemporary European History |date=28 October 2016 |volume=26 |issue=1 |pages=189–199 |doi=10.1017/S0960777316000461 |s2cid=151567136 }}</ref> ==References== {{reflist}} {{Multistub|history|europe}} [[Category:1940s in France]] [[Category:1950s in Europe]] [[Category:1960s in France]] [[Category:1970s in Europe]] [[Category:Economic history]]