Holidays

By country

Each country is entitled to have approximately a few weeks of holidays. With HongKong, Singapore and Taiwan, there are 7 days of holidays in the year, (minimum), as for the France, it is the country having the most days of holidays with 5 weeks. The Summer holidays separate one school year from the other. They are held most of the time towards the be. With regard to the North America, that can vary enters 14 and 21 days. Maybe in July - August in the Northern Hemisphere, and in December - January in the Southern hemisphere.

History

André Rauch shows in Vacances in France of 1830 to our days that the statute of the holidays has radically changed for two centuries.

At the XIXe century, the holidays were a primarily aristocratic and middle-class value: it is time when the rich person do not do anything (vacancy wants to say " vide").

They are the English who, the first, used the holidays to travel, for medical and cultural reasons (the Riviera about 1880).

From the end of the year 1940, with the appearance of the popular cars, the holidays become on the contrary one moment when one moves, where one travels. With the rise of publicity, it is now when nothing is done, when one remains at home, that one thinks of having missed his holidays.

Some important dates:
1936, in France, the first Paid vacations, introduced by the government of the Popular front
1956, in France, 3rd week of paid vacations
1969, in France, 4th
1981, in France, 5th

Known sentences

"this histrien on vacation " : Charles Baudelaire, the Beatrice (in Flowers of the Evil, 1861)
“ Holidays, I forget all, plus nothing to make whole, I am sent in the air, that they are super, light madness, it is insane! ”, sang the group Élégance in 1982.
At the end of the 20th century in front of the pandemia of HIV in France, a prevention campaign against the AIDS was “ On vacation, I forget all… except the Préservatif ”