the legitimacy of the democratic capitalism that had taken shape in the trente glorieuses

Referred to in France as the Trente Glorieuses, the 'thirty glorious' years from 1945 to 1975

What Jean Fourastié was subsequently to dub the trente glorieuses – the ‘long wave’ of economic growth following the Second World War – accelerated the rural exodus, raised living standards, generalized leisure and created a ‘new working class’