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    Holidays and Observances for 2012
    January 01
  • New Year's Day (Jour de l'An)
  • February 21
  • Fat Tuesday (Mardi Gras)
  • April 06
  • Good Friday (Vendredi Saint)
  • April 08
  • Easter Sunday (Pâques)
  • April 09
  • Easter Monday (Lundi de Pâques)
  • May 01
  • Labour Day (Fête du Travail)
  • May 08
  • V-E Day (Fête de la Victoire 1945)
  • May 17
  • Ascension Day (Ascension)
  • May 27
  • Pentecost (Pentecôte)
  • May 28
  • Whit Monday (Lundi de Pentecôte)
  • June 17
  • Father's Day
  • July 14
  • Bastille Day (Fête Nationale)
  • August 15
  • Assumption of the Blessed Virgin Mary (Assomption)
  • November 01
  • All Saints' Day (Toussaint)
  • November 11
  • Armistice Day (Armistice 1918)
  • December 06
  • St Nicholas Day (Saint Nicolas)
  • December 25
  • Christmas Day (Noël)


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    French Christmas Customs

    French Christmas Customs


    Christmas in France is celebrated mainly in a religious manner, though some secular ways of celebrating the holiday also exist. Children put their shoes by the fireplace so Père Noël (Father Christmas or Santa Claus) can give them gifts.

    Typical Provençal Nativity scene. Image courtesy of Eusebius (Guillaume Piolle).
    Typical Provençal Nativity scene. Image courtesy of Eusebius (Guillaume Piolle).

    Many French families also decorate their homes with Nativity Scenes depicting the birth of Jesus. Many families attend midnight mass. Some people put additional Santons (little saints) in their nativity scenes, which are bought at special Christmas fairs before the holidays

    More information on Christmas worldwide

  • BBC - Languages - French - Christmas - France
    BBC Languages - Learn French in your own time and have fun with Christmas. Find out about a typical French Christmas
  • Christmas in France
    Explain to your students that French children put their shoes by the fireplace on Christmas Eve in hopes that "Pere Noel" (Santa Claus) will bring them some toys.
  • Christmas in France - French Christmas Customs - Christmas ...
    Read about Christmas and its traditions in France and French Christmas customs.
  • Christmas in France - French Christmas Customs and Traditions
    French Christmas Decorations The sapin de Noël is the main decoration in homes, streets, shops, offices, and factories. The sapin de Noël appeared in Alsace ...
  • Christmas in France: French Holiday Traditions
    Turkey and chestnuts are popular in Burgundy, while in Paris and Il-de-France region oysters are served. Of course, no French Christmas dinner would be complete without the ...
  • Christmas in french - Christmas Forum
    Christmas in french Talk about christmas in other languages ... some vocabulary in french : Merry Christmas = Joyeux Noël Happy new year = bonne année
  • French Christmas
    Learn how to celebrate Christmas french-style ... Joyeux Noel! Christmas in France is a wonderful time focused on family and friends.
  • French Christmas Traditions: Christmas Traditions Around the World ...
    French Christmas Traditions. Part of the series: Christmas Traditions Around the World. French Christmas traditions involve many unique holiday activities. Learn more about the ...
  • French Christmas Vocabulary
    Whether writing a letter to Santa or just celebrating Christmas, this French Christmas vocabulary will come in handy.
  • How to Celebrate a French Christmas | eHow.com
    How to Celebrate a French Christmas. In France, Christmas is called "Noël." Family and friends celebrate the holiday by gathering for a festive meal.


  • New! French Christmas Word Search Puzzle

    French Christmas Print and Solve Wordsearch Puzzle
    Print and solve the new French Christmas Word search puzzle. Search for words vertically, diagonally, horizontally and backwards. Click here to open a new browser window - use the browser's Print option to print puzzle.


    French Easter Customs

    French Easter Customs

  • Easter in France
    Curious about Easter in France? Find out about some fun French Easter traditions that you might like to adopt for your own celebration.
  • Easter In France - Easter Celebrations In France
    In France, Easter celebrations adopt great grandeur and majesty. Go through the article, to know more on the festive spirit, during Easter.
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    Read on to know about Easter traditions and celebration in France.
  • Easter in France -- Easter Around the World -- whyeaster?com
    Easter in France. In France, Church Bells do not ring on Good Friday or Easter Saturday. Sometimes children are told that the bells have gone off to see the Pope!
  • Easter In France | Easter Traditions In France
    Dgreetings shares information about Easter In France, Easter Tradition In France, and Easter festival celebration in France.
  • Easter in France: Traditions and Food | France Travel Guide
    In a nearly all Catholic country, it comes as no surprise that Easter is a widely celebrated and important holiday in France. Find out more about the flying Easter bells, egg hunts ...
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    Easter is celebrated in France much as it is in America, with various religious ceremonies commemorating the rebirth of Jesus, and cultural customs having to do with rabbits ...
  • Holidays: Easter Monday in France
    Easter Monday (Lundi de Pâques), which is the day after Easter Sunday, is a public holiday in France. There are a range of local customs and events. However, many people spend ...
  •  Weddings and Courtships - France
    Weddings and Courtships - France


    Envision a First Date. Infuse a Relationship. Plan a Wedding. Live the French Life. French romance: the history and mythology, the poetry, blessings, food and drinks. A book for everyone looking to embrace all things French in the ways of love. Start with courtship, then create the perfect wedding, and keep the fire alive with everyday French living.

    French Wedding Customs

    In smaller French towns, the groom may meet his fiancée at her home on the day of the wedding and escort her to the chapel where the ceremony is being held. As the couple proceeds to the chapel, children will stretch long white ribbons across the road which the bride will cut as she passes.

    At the chapel, the bride and groom are seated on two red velvet chairs underneath a silk canopy called a carre. Laurel leaves may be scattered across their paths when they exit the chapel. Sometimes small coins are also tossed for the children to gather.

    At the reception, the couple customarily uses a toasting cup called a Coupe de Marriage. The origin of giving this toast began in France, when a small piece of toast was literally dropped into the couple's wine to ensure a healthy life. The couple would lift their glass to "a toast", as is common in Western culture today.

    Some couples choose to serve a croquembouche instead of a wedding cake. This dessert is a pyramid of crème-filled pastry puffs, drizzled with a caramel glaze.

    Croquembouche wedding cake. Image courtesy of 
Eric Baker
    Croquembouche wedding cake. Image courtesy of Eric Baker

    At a more boisterous wedding, tradition involves continuing the celebration until very late at night. After the reception, those invited to the wedding will gather outside the newlyweds' window and bang pots and pans. They are then invited into the house for some more drinks in the couple's honor, after which the couple is finally allowed to be alone for their first night together as husband and wife.

    Another practice common at wedding celebrations is Sabrage: the "beheading" a bottle of champagne with a sabre made for the occasion. It was started as a way for the Hussars (under Napoleon's command) to celebrate victories and exhibit their horseback skills: they would "behead" the top off a bottle of champagne while on horseback. Legend has it that the skilled horsemen would ride at a full gallop while brave women held up bottles of champagne. The sabre must strike the neck of the bottle at exactly the right angle (champagne bottles have over 100 pounds of pressure per square inch).

    This practice spread throughout France as a way to celebrate special occasions. Decorative replicas of these special sabres can be purchased from artisans in Lyon, France (the French capital of cutlery).

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    Some of early French wedding tradition and customs have influenced modern wedding ceremony.
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    Still practiced in small villages today, is a traditional French custom, for the groom to call on his future bride at her home on the morning of their wedding day.
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    French Wedding Traditions and Customs. Some of early French wedding traditions have persisted today, transplanted to other parts of the world and influenced modern wedding ceremony ...
  • Traditional French Wedding
    A traditional French wedding is a ceremonious celebration with varied customs, that are symbolic to various aspects, of institution of marriage. Here is some more information ...

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    French Christmas

     A French Christmas
    A French Christmas

    A French Christmas is a 14 song album of traditional and familiar Christmas songs sung in French by an American singer. Each album contains lyrics, for those who want to sing along.

     Christmas in France DVD
    Christmas in France DVD

    France celebrates Christmas by combining modern and traditional rituals with religious observances and holiday feasts.

     En la Fete de Noel - O Holy Night
    En la Fete de Noel - O Holy Night

    En la Fete de Noel - O Holy Night by Martin Dagenais

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     French Christmas Music
    French Christmas Music

    This CD includes music that were originally French folk songs, as well as some of the most beautiful religious music ever written. While some of the carols may be quite familiar (such as O Come, O Come Emmanuel and O Holy Night),....

     Joyeux Noel
    Joyeux Noel

    This is a collection of Christmas favorites performed in both French and English. Many influences are evident in this set from the swing tempo of Jingle Bells to the....

     Joyeux Noel: Learning Songs and Traditions in French (Teach Me) (Book & Audio CD) (French Edition)
    Joyeux Noel: Learning Songs and Traditions in French (Teach Me) (Book & Audio CD) (French Edition)

    Celebrate the holiday season in France with "Joyeux Noel"! Accompaning CD has all your favorite holiday songs in both French and English.





    French Folk Dance and Song


    Fête des Rouaisouns, Jersey 2008(Blaudes et Coeffes de Paris et la Société Alfred Rossel de Cherbourg, Fête des Rouaisouns, mai 2008 Jersey). Image courtesy of Man vyi.
    Fête des Rouaisouns, Jersey 2008(Blaudes et Coeffes de Paris et la Société Alfred Rossel de Cherbourg, Fête des Rouaisouns, mai 2008 Jersey). Image courtesy of Man vyi.

  • Bagatelle, Folk Dances of France, Dayton, Ohio
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    Pages in category "French folk songs" The following 10 pages are in this category, out of 10 total. This list may not reflect recent changes . ...
  • Folk Dance - Streetswings Dance History archives - Main Page
    ... on April 26th, 1847 in Paris inspired by the voyages of the French explorer Louis-Antoine de Bougainville (1729-1811) had introduced folk dances ...
  • Folk Songs of the Old French
    Among the published curiosities of our fair city of Vincennes is to be found a celebration of a favorite activity of the old French settlers here. Folk Songs of Old Vincennes (1946 ...
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    (In French only) French recordings of some children's songs and a couple of little folk tales with illustrations. The words aren't given in French or English, so you might have to ...
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    The French Birthday Song


    French Traditional Costumes
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  • Girls in Provençal costume | Flickr - Photo Sharing!
    Parade of girls in traditional Arlesian Provençal costume, during the Fête de St Eloi, St Étienne du Grès, Provence, France.
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    Send flowers and gift baskets to France




    Bastille Day

    The Bastille Day parade in Cazouls les Beziers, Languedoc, France. Image courtesy of MikeSibthorp.
    The Bastille Day parade in Cazouls les Beziers, Languedoc, France. Image courtesy of MikeSibthorp.

    Bastille Day is the French national holiday, celebrated on 14 July each year . In France, it is called Fête Nationale ("National Celebration") in official parlance, or more commonly quatorze juillet ("14 July"). It commemorates the 1790 Fête de la Fédération, held on the first anniversary of the storming of the Bastille on 14 July 1789; the anniversary of the storming of the Bastille fortress-prison was seen as a symbol of the uprising of the modern nation, and of the reconciliation of all the French inside the constitutional monarchy which preceded the First Republic, during the French Revolution.

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  • Bastille Day
    Bastille Day, celebrated annually in France on July 14th, commemorates what was considered the first major victory against the monarchy during the French Revolution, the ...
  • Bastille Day - French National Holiday
    Learn about Bastille Day, the French national holiday celebrated on 14 July.
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    What Is Bastille Day? Bastille Day is a National holiday in France. It is very much like Independence Day in the United States because it is a celebration of the beginning of a ...


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