November 29th, 2009 
Hazel Wig 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.
France really is dedicated to the Easter holiday. All of French churches do not ring bells for at least 3 days prior to Easter Sunday. Then On Easter Morning they all chime out all throughout the countryside and townsfolk embrace one another celebrate in the joy that Easter brings.
Kids receive eggs of tasty chocolate all over France on Easter morning. These are thought to be given to them from the Flying Bells that chime on Easter morning from the churches as they fly overhead they drop the eggs in yards and homes for the kids to find and search for that day. No cute bunny for them.
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 celebrated throughout France on the fourteenth of July with parades in the streets and fireworks that go on until the night is well on its way. Townspeople gather to commemorate the mobs of angry people who stormed through this once famous Paris prison and freed the prisoners and towns from the awful things being done there.
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.
A wedding tradition in France consists of a member of the wedding party using a special saber to take the head off a bottle of champagne. This tradition supposedly got its origins from horse soldiers called the Hussard of Napoleon.
The troops of Napoleons armies would ask ladies to hold their own bottles skyward and then lop off the necks with their sabers and drink and feast afterwards. What fun they had then. We smartened up quite a bit since then and decided that was not a very safe way of doing it.
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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There are some great points on here. My family and I always take the train to France because we have a lot of relatives over there and it’s so much easier than flying, and last year we went for Christmas. It was worth every second, I definitely recommend.
Emma