# Paid vacations and forty-hour week enacted (1936)

URL: https://history-france.com/timeline/1936-paid-vacations-and-forty-hour-week-enacted
Location: France

Popular Front legislation transformed working life and leisure. Within the broader Third Republic period, The Third Republic survived war, the Commune, constitutional crises and fierce ideological conflict. It expanded mass schooling and empire, faced the Dreyfus Affair, fought World War I and entered the troubled interwar era. At this point in the timeline, the relevant governing authority is Albert Lebrun (President of the French Republic). Paid vacations and forty-hour week enacted is a useful marker in the longer transformation of political authority, society and culture in France. The event is positioned here so visitors can read it alongside changes in government, warfare, society, religion, culture and France’s wider international setting.

## Why it matters
Paid vacations and forty-hour week enacted is a useful marker in the longer transformation of political authority, society and culture in France.

Ruler at the time: [Albert Lebrun](https://history-france.com/rulers/albert-lebrun)

## Sources
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- [Vie-publique — French institutions and history](https://www.vie-publique.fr/)