parvenu

　 　

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1. of or characteristic of a parvenu (同)parvenue

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1. 成金,成上り者
2. (ユダヤ教で)精進料理の(原料に獣肉や乳を用いない)

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A parvenu is a person who is a relative newcomer to a socioeconomic class. The word is borrowed from the French language; it is the past participle of the verb parvenir (to reach, to arrive, to manage to do something).

Origin

The word parvenu typically describes a person who recently ascended the social ladder, especially a nouveau riche or "new money" individual. The famous Molly Brown, who survived the Titanic sinking in 1912, was portrayed as a "new money" individual in the "climbing social classes" musical The Unsinkable Molly Brown because of her impoverished Irish immigrant roots and lack of social pedigree.

The Oxford English Dictionary defines a parvenu as: "A person from a humble background who has rapidly gained wealth or an influential social position; a nouveau riche; an upstart, a social climber. Also in extended use. Generally used with the implication that the person concerned is unsuited to the new social position, esp. through lacking the necessary manners or accomplishments."

The term designates individuals not socially accepted by individuals already established in their new class. It expresses a form of classism.

Social climber

A social climber is someone who seeks social prominence, for example by obsequious behavior. The term is sometimes used as synonymous with parvenu, and may be used as an insult, suggesting a poor work ethic or disloyalty to roots.

Examples

Several examples might include athletic and entertainment professionals born and raised in poverty and suddenly finding themselves with significantly higher income due to their new-found celebrity status.

Established royal families of Europe regarded the Bonaparte family as parvenu royalty. Napoleon III tried to marry into Swedish and German royalty, but was unsuccessful because he was a parvenu. This was also said to be the case with the marriage of Egyptian Princess Fawzia to the future Shah of Iran, Mohammad Reza Pahlavi. One of the reasons speculated for their divorce is that Fawzia's family, including King Farouk I, viewed the Pahlavis as parvenus. Though the Muhammad Ali Dynasty of Egypt and Sudan, to which Fawzia belonged, had humble beginnings, it had solidified its status in Egypt and the Arab World since 1805. In contrast, the Pahlavis were a far more recent dynasty, owing their position entirely to the coup d'état of Mohammad Reza Pahlavi's father, Reza Khan, in 1921.

Many parvenus in the United States worked their way up the social ladder, starting as poor immigrants. Originally immigrant workers, they would have found themselves able to take advantage of the growing opportunities in the U.S., moving on to become civil servants, "white collar" (business/office) workers and finally member of respectable society. Such an example might be John Jacob Astor, whose family once skinned rabbits for a living and went on to build such icons of New York City as the Waldorf-Astoria Hotel with his brother; his grandson moved to England, where he eventually became the first Viscount Astor.

In the 19th century, the French aristocracy viewed Jewish women who converted to Christianity upon marriage as parvenus. Professor Catherine Nicault of the University of Reims Champagne-Ardenne has argued that this exemplified the way the French aristocracy was hostile towards Jews.

Literature

• In the novel The Great Gatsby, Gatsby represents the newly rich. He obtains his wealth through bootlegging, spends it lavishly, and struggles to gain the acceptance of older money.
• In the novel The Red and the Black, the provincial protagonist Julien Sorel thinks of himself as a parvenu after establishing himself in the service of the Marquis de la Mole.
• In The Cherry Orchard, Gayev regards Lophakhin as a parvenu, as many critics interpret his remarks.
• Pip, from Dickens’s Great Expectations, would be considered a parvenu by many.
• Edmond Dantès as The Count of Monte Cristo in Alexandre Dumas' work.
• John and Alisoun in "The Miller's Tale" by Geoffrey Chaucer.
• The Franklin in The Franklin's Tale by Geoffrey Chaucer.
• Philip Elton in Jane Austen's novel Emma.
• Jane Wilson in Anne Brontë's novel The Tenant of Wildfell Hall.
• Barry Lyndon, the protagonist of the novel The Luck of Barry Lyndon by William Makepeace Thackeray, as well as the eponymous film by Stanley Kubrick
• The Necklace by Guy De Maupassant tells the story of Madame Mathilde Loisel and her husband. Mathilde always imagined herself in a high social position with wonderful jewels. However, she has nothing and marries a low-paid clerk who tries his best to make her happy.
• "William Wilson" (short story), a short story by Edgar Allan Poe

Film

• In Miss Potter, Beatrix Potter refers to her parents as "Parvenus...social climbers" after they attempt to prevent her from marrying her publisher Norman Warne since he is a tradesman, despite them coming from a trading background.
• In Downfall (2004 film), Adolf Hitler furiously accuses Hermann Göring of being a parvenu.
• Hyacinth Bucket, the protagonist of the British sitcom Keeping Up Appearances.

See also

• Social mobility
• Snobbery

References

External links

• The dictionary definition of parvenu at Wiktionary

English Journal

• Current evidence of transurethral Ho:YAG and Tm:YAG treatment of bladder cancer: update 2014.

• Kramer MW1, Wolters M, Cash H, Jutzi S, Imkamp F, Kuczyk MA, Merseburger AS, Herrmann TR.
• World journal of urology.World J Urol.2015 Apr;33(4):571-9. doi: 10.1007/s00345-014-1337-y. Epub 2014 Jun 17.
• INTRODUCTION: Bladder cancer (BC) represents a growing health care problem worldwide. In times of tight budgets and an aging society, new strategies for the transurethral treatment of BC are needed. Laser devices used for tumor vaporization and/or en bloc resection provide an alternative to parvenu
• PMID 24935098

• Parvenus and conflict in elite cohorts.

• Michael Lindsay D1, Schachter A2, Porter JR3, Sorge DC4.
• Social science research.Soc Sci Res.2014 Sep;47:148-64. doi: 10.1016/j.ssresearch.2014.03.006. Epub 2014 Mar 27.
• Previous studies find that greater workplace diversity leads to higher degrees of conflict in low and medium-status workgroups. This paper examines whether similar dynamics operate in elite cohorts. We use data from a survey of White House Fellows (N=475) to look at how the presence of parvenus-indi
• PMID 24913951

Japanese Journal

• ガブリエル・マルセルの思想における劇作の意義 : 自己と「間主体性」の把握を中心として

• 美學 49(1), 48-59, 1998-06-30
• NAID 110003714287

• プルーストと絵画あるいは喜びの島の心象風景との共生

• 立正大学人文科学研究所年報 34, 19-40, 1997-03-20
• NAID 110000219315

• 中村真一郎とフランス文学 : 古典理解におけるサロン文学の影響

• 桃山学院大学人間科学 3, 31-54, 1992-03-31
• NAID 110004696314

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