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

The 'stagflation' of the 1970s

You would have to go back to the Belle Époque (1900-1910) to find French wealth holders so prosperous

In the long run, patrimonial capitalism is the only kind that can exist.

the Maastricht Treaty, creating the European Union, was ratified in France in September 1992

the only lasting solution is to mutualize our debt, to create a common debt (i.e., 'eurobonds')

After the calamitous Hoover presidency, mired for three years in a 'liquidationist' strategy aimed at letting 'bad' banks fail one after the other

The economic crisis revived the controversy over 'tax dumping,' as critics call it

Beyond a certain level of wealth, it’s hard to see why the law should force parents to turn their children into rentiers.

whatever the size of the fortune, children have a right to the réserve héréditaire. Parents may only freely dispose of what's called the quotité disponible, set at 50 percent of the estate when there's one child, 33 percent with two children, and 25 percent with three or more children.