Chronology of paid vacation in France 1936-2007 and Belgium

1936: 2 weeks
1956: 3 weeks (that's 20 years for one additional week)
1969: 4 weeks (that's 13 years for one additional week)
1982: 5 weeks (again 13 years for one additional week)
During the same period the US will never get a Federal legislation and the most frequent baseline remains at 2 weeks. That's more than 71 years backward...
But there has been no progress in France during the last 25 years (since 1982).

See the comparison with the evolution in Belgium below.

1936: 2 weeks     Belgium (in red) 1936: 1 week
1952: 2 weeks (16 years for one additional week)
1956: 3 weeks (that's 20 years for one additional week)
1967: 3 weeks (15 years for one additional week)
1969: 4 weeks (that's 13 years for one additional week)
1975: 4 weeks (8 years for one additional week)
1982: 5 weeks (again 13 years for one additional week)