New Year

New Year in France is called St. Sylvester’s Day.New Year in France is called St. Sylvester’s Day. His day falls on December 31. New Year’s Eve, like Christmas, is a family celebration, but it’s not usually celebrated in your nest.

The New Year is celebrated with friends somewhere in a cafe, restaurant or nightclub, whose windows are painted with attractive drawings and inscriptions. During the New Year’s dinner, they dance, joke, put on pointed caps and throw confetti or serpentine ribbons at each other.

One of the favorite New Year’s entertainments of the French is the lottery. You can win a turkey, chicken or even a pig.

The dinner table is decorated with mistletoe. According to legend, this plant brings good luck. Traditional food... Again, blood sausages, fried goose or turkey, baked pork head, peas, beans, lentils, nuts, chestnuts, milk cakes, sweets. You can't do without a goose liver.

As for gifts, there is nothing specific. You will never make a mistake if you give any funny, elegant, stylish, original or simply pleasant thing. For example, in 2002, when France introduced the euro, the French gave packages with fresh pan-European coins totaling 100 francs.