Every year in France, as elsewhere, people excitedly prepare well in advance for the Christmas and New Year’s festivities. As early as November the avenues are garlanded with lights and the streets ...

Read the original article on Purewow. Advent calendars were my favorite when I was a kid, so I was thrilled to learn that they’re one of the most popular French Christmas traditions, too. You’re ...

The Christmas season is a time when the French set aside their treasured notions of being a staunchly secular country to revel in holiday traditions, many of them rooted in the religious practices of ...

SHREVEPORT, La. (KTAL/KMSS) – Modern-day Louisiana was a French colony twice–once from the years 1682 – 1762 and again from 1800-1803, and there is no question that our state’s French heritage is ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A traditional French bûche de Noël on sale at a bakery. (© Visitor7 via Wikimedia commons) Every year in France, as elsewhere, ...

Christmas in France would not be complete without free-flowing champagne, oysters or a bûche de Noël. And the French holiday season is longer than most – stretching into the New Year with Epiphany ...

Christmas dinner in France makes good on a promise to dine very well, offering everything from extravagant seafood platters to sweet treats such as the traditional Yule log cake (or bûche de Noël).