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Title: Mardi Gras, Feast of Federation, Nol, and La Toussaint


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Mardi Gras, Feast of Federation, Noël, and La
Toussaint
  • Travis Mialback and Stefanie Pennington

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Feast of Federation Beginning
  • The Day is celebrated every July 14th since 1880.
  • The Feast of the Federation is also known as
    French National Day.
  • The day is used to commemerate the day in which
    the storming of Bastille had happened ending the
    rule of absolute monarchy in France.

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Feast of Federation
  • The French has many different traditions that
    they practice in order to celebrate the Feast of
    Federation.
  • They celebrate by allowing the troops to perform
    a parade at the Champs-Elysées. Many people from
    all around France come to see the parade.

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Feast of Federation
  • The military parade is a huge celebration for the
    Feast of the Federation.
  • The parade happens in the presence of the
    President and plenty of governmental officials.
  • The President will actually inspect each of the
    troops personally himself of July 13th before the
    parade.

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Feast of Federations
  • Other traditions they celebrate are very similar
    to the ones we celebrate here in America. They
    also use fireworks to celebrate the national
    holiday.
  • One great site you can observe on the Feast of
    Federation is the fireworks shooting off the
    Eiffel Tower.
  • The small display of fireworks happens on July
    13th while the large display like the one to the
    right happens on July 14th.

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Feast of Federation
  • The parade will consist of about 4000 troops.
  • In some occasions the French will invite several
    countries to come and participate in the
    celebrations of Feast of Federation.
  • For an example in 1994 France invited a small
    regiment of German soldiers to march in the
    parade.

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Feast of Federation
  • Other displays and consist of using on ground
    military vehicles. Like the ones to the right
    displayed.
  • They also have an air display as well. The air
    fleet of France performs various demonstrations.

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Feast of Federation
  • Another event that takes place during the Feast
    of Federation is the Presidential Address.
  • The Presidential Address is used to inform and
    educate the public about situations going on in
    the country.
  • The following quotes are from addresses in the
    past years.
  • From July 14th 1995 President Jacques Chirac, la
    situation est depuis un an en voie damélioration
    et il convient maintenant daccélérer les
    réformes indispensables
  • The quote translated means the situation is the
    past year being improved and should now
    accelerate necessary reforms.
  • The quote was referring to the situation of
    elderly care and Medicare at the current time of
    France.

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Feast of Federation
  • More quotes that Presidents made in past
    addresses.
  • The following quote comes from Jacques Chirac in
    2005.
  • The situation he was addressing was the social
    divide and growth of France.
  • La fracture sociale, dans létat actuel des
    choses, a-t-il dit, ne se réduit pas depuis cinq
    ans. Le nombre des allocataires du RMI ne fait
    quaugmenter. Nous voyons le chômage diminuer, la
    richesse augmenter, mais sa répartition
    contestée, notamment par les gens qui ont fait le
    plus defforts, la génération entre trente et
    cinquante ans, qui a assumé la période charnière,
    et qui ne se voit pas récompensée. "

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Feast of the Federation
  • The quote translates to The social divide, in
    the current state of affairs, he said, is not
    reduced in five years. The number of beneficiarie
    of the RMI is increasing. We see unemplyement
    diminshing, the wealth increases, but its
    distributions contested, especially by people who
    have made the greats efforts, generating between
    thrity and fifty years old, who assumed the
    pivotal period, which is not well rewarded.

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Mardi-Gras in France
  • Another exciting holiday that is celebrated in
    France is Mardi-Gras.
  • The French call Mardi-Gras by a different name
    they refer to the celebration as Carnivals.
  • The day is celebrated right before Lent.
  • Lent is celebrated by Christians, it is a time in
    which they celebrate 40 days before Easter.

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Mardi-Gras
  • The French have many different customs that they
    have in order to celebrate.
  • One custom they celebrate is be dressing
    completely up in costumes and going to parties.
  • The idea of the costumes is to be able to
    celebrate and have as much fun as possible while
    disguised behind the costume.

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Mardi-Gras
  • Another tradition that they have is very
    differnent.
  • At the origin of the Carnival there were many old
    habits from France. For example, the French took
    a fat cow around the roads of Paris to tell
    people not to eat meat during Lent.

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Mardi-Gras
  • As we said before the French refer to Mardi-Gras
    as Carnival.
  • The word "carnival" means in Latin "to take away
    eating meat". Some people believe the idea for
    carnival started even earlier with the ancient
    festivals of the Romans.

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Mardi-Gras
  • Smaller towns celebrate Mardi-Gras in many ways
    as well.
  • Up in the Basque mountain town, it was a romp
    200-odd young people in fancy dress skipping,
    drumming and banging to a green and red garbed,
    face-painted conductor.

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Mardi-Gras
  • Here recently they have taken up new traditions.
  • Since the year of 2005 the city of Dunkirk has
    began making large dolls protraying characters of
    Mardi-Gras.
  • To the right is a picture of the huge dolls they
    have made.
  • As you can see the dolls can reach up to 26 feet
    tall.

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Mardi-Gras
  • The celebration of Mardi-Gras happens in the
    following order.
  • They first gather to began a parade consisting of
    masked people and large floats.
  • The floats are called un chars.
  • After the parade the party moves to a late night
    ball known as a un bal masqué.

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Mardi-Gras
  • The slogan of Mardi-Gras is Let the good times
    roll which translates in French to Laissez les
    bons temps rouler. 
  • A strange tradition is also to refer to people
    that are dressed for Mardi-Gras. The French will
    mock those by stating Ce n'est pas mardi gras
    aujourd'hui . It translates to "today isn't
    mardi-gras.

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Joyeux Noël!
  • Noel is a Christian holiday that celebrates the
    birth of Jesus Christ.
  • Usually the festivals of Christmas start the
    first Sunday of Advent (the third Sunday before
    Christmas) and end with the Epiphany.
  • Advent is the time to prepare for Christmas and
    many will light candles that illuminate the
    windows others will light crowns.

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Traditions
  • The celebration of Christmas in France varies by
    region. Most provinces celebrate Christmas on the
    25th of December, which is a bank holiday.
  • However, in eastern and northern France, the
    Christmas season begins on 6 December, la fête de
    Saint Nicolas
  • In some provinces la fête des Rois is one of the
    most important holidays of the Christmas season.
    In most countries, Epiphany (la fête des Rois)
    is the 6th of January, whereas in some places in
    France it is celebrated the first Sunday after
    1st January.
  • In Lyon, 8 December is la Fête de lumières, when
    Lyonnais pay homage to the virgin Mary by putting
    candles in their windows which light up the
    village.

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Traditions
  • In France one generally celebrates this holiday
    with family.
  • It starts December 24 with the midnight supper
    known as le réveillon. In most cases families
    attend midnight mass and eat supper after.
  • The midnight supper continues late with a
    traditional meal during which one divides the
    log of Christmas cake, a cake in the shape of a
    log.

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  • This tradition of the log of Christmas cake
    comes from the original tradition of the log of
    Christmas which was very popular in France
    before the spread of electricity.
  • A few days before Christmas a large trunk was
    carefully selected to hold as long as possible,
    for the log was to last until at least Christmas
    Eve.
  • The log was to be cut before the rising sun.
    decorated with foliages and ribbons, and blessed
    by the head of household.

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  • Père Noël brings gifts to all the children.
  • In the south of France, the children find their
    gifts in shoes. Before going to bed, they put
    their shoes by the fireside for a gift from "le
    père de Noël"
  • Christmas trees (Un sapin de Noël) and a crib
    (une crèche ) are used as decorations throughout
    the house.
  • Une crèche refers to the manger that Jesus was
    born in.

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La Toussaint
  • All Saints Day, falls on the 1st of November.
  • It is a non-working day in France.
  • On this day families go to cemetaries and put
    flowers on deceased family members tombs.

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  • Jour férié. Fête catholique en l'honneur de tous
    les saints. Le lendemain c'est la Fête des
    morts. Selon la tradition, on met des
    chrysanthèmes sur les tombes familiales au
    cimetière.
  • Public holiday. Celebrates catholic in the honor
    of all the saints. The following day it is the
    All Souls' Day. According to the tradition, one
    puts chrysanthemums on the family tombs at the
    cemetery.

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  • The week before All Souls Day women in mourning
    visit les cimetières to clean the family graves
    and decorate them with artificial flowers and
    wreaths of immortelles.
  • Family reunions honor the dead.
  • Churches are decorated with colorful flowers,
    candles and banners.

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