You can find something to love every month in France, but it may really stand out. From multiple holidays to flowers and spring festivals, here are our five favorite things about May in France.
Each season in France has its attributes.
In winter, you can enjoy Heary dishes in French classic restaurants. In autumn, you can make mushrooms and try new wines. In summer, you have thousands or kilometers or coasts to choose from a holiday on the beach.
As for spring, we have chosen five reasons on why the month of May is so special.
A long lovely time outside work, free
Department in the year, up to three or four holidays in May.
While there are some years in which the holidays fall on weekends (and therefore are lost), most of the time workers have at least a few days off in May.
We get three this year – Fête du travail on May 1 (May Day, which is traditional associated with protests and demonstrations.), Ve Day (the Victire of 1945) on May 8 and the Ascension, which in 2025 is May 29.
All are a Thursday of this year, which makes on the weekends of four days a cheerful possibility for the cost of only one annual license day.
For some schools, the Ascension party comes with a day of automatic bridges, which is great news for each student … separated from those who study for their short or BAC.
Pentecost, or the holiday that sometimes does notOr also falls in May, but it is in June of this year because Easter is very late. You can’t have everything.
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That said, if you can take a longer break at this time of the year, it will be good for your bank balance, as well as your well -being, because it is not the maximum summer vacation season, so it is likely that hotels prices are lower notified.
Spring flowers
Talking about holidays takes us to the flower of Muguet, or to the Lily of the Valley to the Anglophones gardens, which on May (May 1) is only protests and demonstrations.
On this May in 1561, the king of France Charles IX received a Muguet as a charm of luck and liked it so much that he decided to sacrifice them every year to the ladies of the Court.
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These days, the flowers are sold in branches of the street around France and people sacrifice friends or family for good luck.
They are also very important for French Toulon Rugby Club Top 14 fans: the flower is in the club’s badge, as a tribute to singer Felix Mayol, after who is also named the famous stage of the club.
It is a sign of the important ones that are in French culture when the country was still locked while the Covid pandemic unleashed, the French Minister of Agriculture touched the time to reassure citizens that muguets would still be avializable in supermarkets for May 1.
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The weather
The week before Easter may have left much to be desired, but the weather in France in May is often glorious.
The sun shines; The sky is blue; It is hot, but not too hot, the day is dead, and generally agree at night and during the night.
Meanwhile, the trees are in full flower and the flowers are flourishing. The markets are full of tomato plants, and other summer fruits and vegetables, for their potterand the aromatics aroma intoxicating fades in the air.
Another blessing for the gardeners: at this time of year, the risk that the harmful young plants of night frost are more or less.
Basically, it is time to be outside, seeing a lot of green and overcoming vitamin D.
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In Paris, the warmer climate and the longest days mean that ‘Terrasse’ The season can really start, although technically begins in April. After the COVID-19 pandemic, the city begged allowing restaurants to occupy an extended space for an outdoor dinner from April to October.
In the villages throughout the country, there can also be barbecues. And some good souls can open their pools for the first dives of the year.
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Festivals
France has awakened from its winter dream, and is entering the fashion of the complete festival in the period before a summer of events throughout the country.
These are the months in the museum, the opening tennis manifestations in Roland Garros, the 22nd annual Nuits Sounds Festival, The Big Vitilire Wine FestivalThe Monaco Grand Prix (which is, without a doubt, not quite in France, but we will take it), the Jazz Sous Les Pommiers of Normandy, and the Johanniques holidays in Reims.
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Cañones!
Yes, it is true that it is another festival. But Cannes is the brightest festival of all, with the glamor marked up to 12.
The 78th Film Festival opens at the Resort on the southern coast of France on May 13 and extends until May 24. It is, or of course, all about movies, but it is also the glamor … and the detection of stars.
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This year, the very Eagly expected Mission: Impossible – The Final Reckoning It will be projected, outside the competition, just like Spike Lee’s Last Higher 2 lower, And the debut in the direction of Scarlett Johansson Eleanor el Grande, While Robert De Niro will receive an honorary palm from Or.
Juliette Binoche will preside over the jury of the Film Festival, directing the rule on an impressive list of films that include Wes Anderson’s The Phoenician schemeRichard Linklater’s New waveand EddingtonBy Ari Aster.
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