Christmas in France. Christmas Holiday The 25th December is a public holiday in France, as it is in Britain. However, Boxing Day on the 26th is not a.

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Christmas in France

Christmas Holiday The 25th December is a public holiday in France, as it is in Britain. However, Boxing Day on the 26th is not a holiday, because it’s an English, not French, tradition. So everyone goes to work!

Saint Nicolas It was Saint Nicholas who was the original Father Christmas, or ‘Père Noël’ as he is known in France. Traditionally, it was St Nicholas who brought the presents to children.

Le Père Noël If you look carefully at the pictures of Santa and Saint Nicholas, you will find the the long white beard the Bishop's mitre, which is Santa's hat the red coat

Père Fouettard Père Noël travels with Père Fouettard who tells him how each child has behaved during the year. Good children receive presents. Naughty children get no gifts. In some parts of France Père Noël brings small gifts on St. Nicholas Eve (December 6) and visits again on Christmas Eve.

Decorations In France, one of the most important decorations at Christmas time is the Sapin de Noël (Christmas tree). It is used in homes, streets, shops, offices, and factories.The trees in the streets are real, not plastic. The idea of the Christmas tree came from Alsace in the 14th century.

Strasbourg, Alsace

The Christmas Wreath This is called: ‘La couronne de bienvenue’ in French.

Le houx

The Holly Legend Tradition says that holly is important because of the way it helped the Holy Family. In order to escape from King Herod's massacre of the Infants, Mary and Joseph left for Egypt with the baby Jesus. On the way the holly trees spread out their spiky branches to protect and hide them.

Le gui : Mistletoe

History of the Mistletoe This plant has a long history. For the ancient Celtic Druids, it was considered sacred because of its miraculous properties - in healing, protection against all sorts of evils, and witchcraft.

La veille de Noël On Christmas Eve the bells of the churches and cathedrals ring to call people to the Mass at midnight. Midnight Mass is a tradition in Europe.

Le Calendrier de l'Avent Advent is the period of four weeks before the birth of Christ. With the Advent Calendar you can count down the days before Christmas. Behind each window or door, there are pictures or little chocolates or lollies.

Christmas Eve French children don't just leave out socks, they may also leave their shoes by the fireplace to be filled with gifts from Père Noël.

Jour de Noël In the morning they also find that sweets, fruit, nuts and small toys have been left by Santa. In other places it is ‘Le Petit Jésus’ who brings the gifts. Adults have no gifts at Christmas but wait until New Year's Day to exchange presents.

Santa’s reindeer The reindeer are called: Fougueux, (Dasher) Danseur,(Dancer) Fringant, (Prancer) Mégère, (Vixen) Comète, (Comet) Cupidon, (Cupid) Tonnerre (Donner or Thunder) Eclair (Blixen or Lightning). Le traîneau = the sledge Un renne = a reindeer

La crèche St Francis of Assisi is said to have been the first to make a Crib. This was in a cave in Greccio, Italy, during Christmas The tradition of having a crib at Christmas became very common in Italy and France.

La crèche Many French homes have a crib or crèche at Christmas time. They may also be seen in shops, town centres and churches.

Le réveillon On Christmas Eve, when people have finished buying their last minute purchases, the streets become deserted. It's time for "le réveillon" or the special Christmas meal. All the family eat together at this time. People traditionally have seafood, such as oysters, roast turkey and ‘une bûche de Noël.

Ready for the ‘réveillon’

Attention! If you are invited to a meal like this, be careful to remember not to eat too much to start with or you may not be able to finish the meal! Especially if you are in the South of France in Provence, where there are thirteen different desserts on the table!

Un menu de Noël en France? The following could be a typical Christmas or New Year meal for people in France You would have ‘nibbles’ to start the meal, for example: ‘Canapés’: little pieces of toasted bread which have delicacies on them ‘Vol au vents’: little pastry shells that contain a variety of tasty fillings ‘Crudités’: little pieces of raw vegetables such as carrot, celery or green peppers.

Les canapés

Les vol au vents

Les crudités

Les Apéritifs Often, Champagne is served as an apéritif (a before dinner drink).

Entrée: Pâté de foie gras This is goose liver pâté. It is very expensive. You can only eat a little at a time. Sometimes it has a truffle for decoration.

Les Fruits de mer This is seafood, for example, prawns, (les crevettes) crabs, (les crabes), crayfish (les langoustines) or trout (les truites).

Le plat principal la dinde (turkey) This comes with some vegetables and is served with a nice sauce La salade (green salad) After this is la salade. This is to clean the taste of the other food from your mouth. It is also a rest between courses.

La dinde et la salade

Le fromage:Cheese Now it is the ‘le fromage’ or the cheese course. Some famous cheeses are: Camembert, Brie and Gruyère. You would eat the cheese with bread and drink red wine.

Dessert Still got some room? Time for ‘les fruits’! During winter most fruit is imported from warmer climates. As it’s Christmas, people try to find something really special.

More desserts And there’s more! Now it’s everyone’s favourite – la bûche de Noël.

La Büche de Noël The Büche de Noël (or Christmas log) is a special cake for Christmas. It’s a sponge cake which is rolled and shaped like a log. Inside there is often a creamy filling and then it is covered in chocolate.

Les petits fours

13 desserts in Provence! In Provence, at Christmas, there is the tradition of serving thirteen different desserts at the end of the traditional Christmas Dinner.

13 desserts The desserts have a religious meaning. The number thirteen represents the twelve Apostles plus Jesus. The first four desserts were traditionally for the religious orders (monks and nuns) who begged for their food: almonds for the Carmelites figs for the Franciscans raisins for the Dominicans walnuts for the Augustines

Les treize desserts de Provence

Then four dishes of fresh fruit: Apples Pears Oranges melons

Nearly finished! Last, but not least..... black nougat and white nougat quince jam candies A savoury bread (fougasse) filled with sun dried tomatoes, or anchovy paste, olive oil and garlic dates

Les treize desserts de Noel

Joyeux Noel! et Bonne Année!