Old France Traditions, Customs and Weird things.

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      There are many customs of France.  On A wedding they use a specially made knife to cut the head of the bottles.  That is called beheading of bottles.  The Tradition was made from celebrating Victories by swinging a saber and cutting the top of a bottle of champagne. 



The old Christmas tradition is a puppet show ever single christmas Eve.  They have a really big Dinner called Le Rebellion.  They eat Capon Turkey chicken and White pudding called Boudin Blanc.



On Thursday Before good Friday they do not ring any bells until sunday.  They use the bells like missile toes and kiss each other when under them. 



In the easter normally you would look for  easter bunny.  In France they find chocolate eggs, that they find like easter eggs and  believe that rings fly.   They were suppose to leave thursday before good Friday.


Celebrated on the 14 of obs of french people.  It is like the Fourth of July they light off fireworks.  Dancing in the streets and parades, this is the one france's most colorful traditions.  They celebrates the Bastill prisons was the symbol of the hated French Monarchy.    The prison was stormed and pillaged by angry mob


Another Tradition is the 5 week holidays.  They employees are given 5 weeks of holiday of a year.  When the people were leaving the cities to go to other places.  They days that are given off is winter, thanksgiving, and other major holidays


The Calendar  of the Holidays are below:

January 1	News Years Days (Jour de l'an)
May 1	Labor Day (Dete du premier mai)
May 8	WWII Victory Day (Fete de la victoire 1945; Fete du huitieme mai)
July 14	Bastille Day (Fete nationale)
August 15	Assumption of the blessed Virgin Mary (assomption)
November 1	All Saints Day (La Toussaint)
November 11	Armistice day Jour D'armisice
December 25	Christmas Day (Noel)
December 26	2nd Day of Christmas (in alsace and Lorraine only
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