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The National French Holiday is the 14th of July, the 14th of Juillet, which celebrates the start of the revolution that formed France into the republic it is today.
The National French Holiday is the 14th of July, the 14th of Juillet, which celebrates the start of the revolution that formed France into the republic it is today.
There's this one holiday in France that they, I don't know, observe that they have that is pretty fun. It's in the beginning of January. I think it's around like January 8th or something like that, so pretty much like right after Christmas, but it's kind of like a king's day and they have a delicious food called the galette des rois. It's kind of like a cake. It's very sugary, but it tastes amazing. It's like made of pâte d'amandes. It's like this like sugary almond paste kind of inside of, you know, pretty much like a like a cake and it's a fun tradition because what they do is they have like this cake and they'll cook it. When they're cooking it, they put like a little object or they call it the fève inside and like they cook it and then they serve it to their family. They like cut it up into different pieces and basically, you know, it's random shot, but someone who's eating the cake will have like the little thing inside. It might be like a little baby Jesus or something and that means they're like the king for the year. So there you go, like their crown and it's pretty fun.
In eastern France during Christmas they often celebrate a holiday called Saint Nicholas Day in which basically you eat like hot chocolate oranges and these little like traditional gingerbread things. They're super good.
So in France, our day of independence is July 14th. So on that holiday, watch out, it gets kind of crazy in the streets.
