Joyful History Of French Life
Holiday traditions in French life do differ from our own in many ways. The French really enjoy and savor the holiday seasons and take time to spend them with loved ones and family.
Easter in France is taken seriously, especially by those who have dedicated Catholic faith. The bells of all French Catholic Churches do no ring for three days leading up to Easter Sunday. They all them chime and people turn to their neighbors and loved ones and hug as the music from the bells ring out.
Instead of little fuzzy bunny that brings the children eggs and candy, the French children believe in the magic of the Flying Bells. They leave three days before the Easter holiday and return on Easter Sunday bringing eggs of chocolate throughout the towns and hiding them in the gardens and households for the kids to find.
Christmas is a joyous time of year no matter where you live, but France hold its traditions from the past dear to their hearts and places them within their Christmas celebrations and customs. The children place, not stockings but their shoes by the hearth for not Santa but Pere Noel to fill full of goodies and toys. They also are puppet shows done on Christmas eve for the children and has been a tradition for centuries.
The Christmas trees in France have additional decoration of delightful candies and nuts on them. Sometimes candles are lit in all the windows as well on Christmas eve night. Most everyone goes to mass for Christmas eve and then all settle in to a delicious menu of turkey, chicken, French desserts, puddings and sides to bring in the joy of the season on Christmas Eve.
Bastille day is a celebration not really known outside of France. It celebrates the freedom of the downtrodden and misconduct of this famous Parisian prison from the townspeople on the–th of July late 17700’s.
It is celebrated on the fourteenth of July and has a vast amount of fireworks throughout the day and night with parades up and down most streets. There is also street dances held and the townspeople celebrated the liberation and freedom of this day in France’s history.
French wedding customs are mostly like ours in other countries. One exception is the bottle beheading of a poor little champagne bottle by the groom using a saber specially created for just such an event. This is said to have started with Napoleon’s troops playing a game and beheading bottles of booze with their sabers.
The troops would let their women friends throw the bottles into the air as they flew by on their trusty steeds and lopped off the bottles head. The French really know how to throw a party and live life to the fullest.
French life holds traditions steadfast in all of their celebrations and also incorporate the importance of spending quality time with loved ones and friends to share in the seasons meaning and joy. The french employers allow each person a total of 5 weeks during a one year period off for specifically celebrating the holiday seasons. This gives them time throughout the year to enjoy their families and especially the ones who visit maybe only once every season.
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