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May 30, 2022
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There are 11 public holidays each year in France, so many that they don’t even bother to ‘replace’ them if they fall on a weekend. In the likely event that a public holiday falls on a Tuesday or Thursday, many people font le pont (make the bridge) and take an extra day off to create a 4 day weekend. This week Thursday was a public holiday and school, cr…

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