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people rich because of industrial revolution

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mollykins | 08:17 Sun 13th Dec 2009 | History
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what is/was the name given to families that only got rich because they got lucky in the industrial revolution? My mum and I were trying to remember and even though its trivial, its annoying us. But I can't rmember if its just a name given to them by aristocracy at the time or in the future or both.
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Nouveau riche?
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It might be but i'm sure there was a different, english slang word.
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Does that translate as newly rich. My french is quite bad but i can read it quite well.
That's it, newly rich.
There's also Parvenu. A newcomer to a social class. Their money would bring them there. And then there's 'Counter jumper' someone who has progressed from selling at one side of the counter in a shop to being a customer at the other side.
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Parvenu i think thats it. Thanks. Isn't it odd how poeple like myslef can read french quite well, but i struggle to put sentences together
True. I can read Spanish..well, a little, but I'd struggle to speak more than a few words.
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wealth earned after the industrial revolution made the arriviste a gentleman, the parvenu gentry.

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