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Stores, banks, post offices and
businesses are closed on the following French national holidays:
- New Year's Day: 1 January (hangover recovery)
- Easter Sunday and Monday (family meals)
- May Day: 1 May (parades and worker solidarity speeches)
- Victoire 1945: 8 May (WWII commemorations)
- Ascension Thursday: May, 40 days after Easter (take Friday off and
get out of town)
- Pentecost/Whit Sunday and Whit Monday: May, 7th Sunday after Easter
(see above)
- Bastille Day: 14 July (parades & fireworks)
- Assumption Day: 15 August (summer is coming to an end)
- All Saints Day: 1 November (try to make it a long weekend)
- Remembrance Day: 11 November (WWI commemorations)
- Christmas: 25 December (recuperate from the big family meal on Christmas
Eve)
Boulangeries and flower shops are usually open the morning of national
holidays but everything else is closed. Except for Christmas day, it's
wise to avoid travel if possible on a national holiday. The airports
are a mess, roads are clogged, train stations are crowded. For warm weather
holidays, everyone heads to the coast. Winter holidays sees everyone
grabbing their skis and heading to the slopes.
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