Le mot du jour : Jour férié
Un jour férié is a public holiday.
There are quite a few in France, for various reasons but mostly to celebrate an historic or religious event.
So today in France, like every 11th of November, people won’t go to work, most of the shops will be closed, and celebrations will be organised in every town and village to remember the 1 400 000 men from France and its colonies who died during the First World War.
The symbolic flower is not “le coquelicot” (poppy) but “le bleuet” (cornflower), like the colour of the French army uniform.
