Major French Holidays:
New Year’s Day (January 1)
Mardi Gras (Tuesday before Lent)
Easter & Easter Monday (movable)
Labour Day (May 1)
Victory Day (May 1)
Ascension (40 days after Easter)
Pentecost (7th Sunday after Easter)
Whit Monday (Monday after Pentecost)
Bastille Day (July 14)
The Assumption (August 15)
Armistice Day (November 11)
Christmas (December 25)
Other Holidays:
St. Genevieve (Paris, January 3)
Crepe Day / La Chandeleur (February 2)
Carnival of Nice (before Lent)
Fete des fleurs (Hyeres, April)
Xicolatada (Pyrenees, August 16)
