On Christmas Eve, children leave their shoes by the filled with gifts to be a fireplace, by Pere Noel. Morning they also find that the fruit, nuts and small toys the sweets on the tree have been hung. In the squared cathedral, the story of Christ's birth re-enacted by players and puppets. Almost every house in French Christmas Time shows a Nativity scene or crèche, as the focus for the Christmas holidays. The crèche is often with a few clay figures populated the santons or "; little saints." In addition to the usual Holy Family, plus the shepherd dogs and ways to put the craftsmen also illustrations in the form of local dignitaries and characters. The skill, which is included, if they cheerfully colored santons cause is quite surprising and the forms are from generation to generation since the seventeenth century have been. During December, the figures in the annual Christmas fairs in Marseille and AIX sold. The Christmas tree has never been particularly popular in France have been, and although the use of Julblocks fade, are the French to a traditional Yule log-shaped cake, the book is called de Nol, which means; Christmas Log " The cake, among other food in abundance is big on great feast of the season served the le called Reveillon. Le Reveillon is a very late dinner, after midnight on Christmas Eve fairs held. The menu for the meal varies according to regional culinary tradition. In Alsace is goose the main course, in Burgundy, it is turkey with chestnut and the Parisians hard to oysters and pat de foie gras. Le Revellion, poultry, ham, salads, cakes, fruit and wine. In southern France, a log in people 'burned s controls Christmas Eve to New Year Day automatically. Long ago it was part of the book board machines used to make the wedge for the plough as a good luck for the coming harvest. |
