New rich person

The expression New rich person , appeared in France during the Inter-war period, is used pejoratively to qualify the people who grew rich quickly, sometimes in a suspect way, and which spends in an ostentatious way their money.

With the eyes of the former rich person and Nobility, of which the statute is called into question by their upward social mobility, the new rich person, or parvenu , miss culture and of good manners.

History

During the First World War, the financing of the war was done by the inflation whose germinal Franc was the victim; the Bourgeoisie crumbles and the shareholders disappear. The essence of the value in the country is then in the hands of the industrialists, who answered the orders of war of the State. Some profited from it to grow rich: they will be called " profiteurs of guerre" (there are an important difference between the war profiteers of the First World War and those of the Second world war).

They do not hesitate at the end of the war, during the Mad years, to spend this money, whereas the war led to deep economic disorganizations and the poverty of many families.

Following the Great Depression, many people lose their fortune or their employment, and fractures it with the new rich person becomes more marked even.

The term has a definitely pejorative direction then.

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