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La Toussaint (All Saints’ Day) is a public holiday in France. If Halloween (which means the eve of holy, so the 31st of October) is still a very marginal celebration, and mainly consumer orientated, the 1st of November, la Toussaint is Christian festival….
Greeting someone in French is not very difficult. One has two alternatives according to the time of the day: BONJOUR (literally good day!), for the morning and afternoon. Mind the pronunciation of the nasal vowel ‘on’ in bonjour which is different to ‘onne’…
Today, le jeudi de l’Ascension (Ascension Thursday, Holy Thursday, or Ascension Day), is a christian holiday. As it is celebrated 40 days after Easter Sunday, it always falls on a Thursday and often in May, even if the date varies. It is a bank…