Le mot du jour : Feu d’artifice
Un feu d’artifice is a firework (literally “artificial fire).
Unlike in the UK, a firework in France is a summer affair. Each town would organise a firework on the night of the 14th of July (Bastille day), to celebrate the beginning of the French Revolution in 1789.
Bigger towns with bigger budgets have the best fireworks so it is quite common for small villages to have their own firework on the night of the 13th and then go and enjoy the bigger ones on the next evening 🙂
Wishing you all some beautiful fireworks this week!
