New Year French Traditions

Le réveillon pronounced luh rei vay on which literally means the awakening idiomatically means a night time celebration.

New year french traditions. Some people like to organize costume parties with dancing while others like to have a quiet evening doing nothing more than snuggling up in front of the tv. However be prepared to hear bonne année and joyeuses fêtes happy holidays until february every time you see someone you last saw the year before. La saint sylvestre pronounced la sain sil ve str is the patron saint of the new year.

In france new year s eve known as la saint sylvestre or réveillon de l an is celebrated in a variety of ways. Typical french new year s greeting in english you say happy new year but the french generally don t say new when wishing someone a great year. On march 1st in the 6th and 7th centuries on christmas day during the reign of charlemagne on easter sunday in the 10th century and on april 1st until the 16th century at which point king charles ix issued the edict of roussillon which set new year definitively on january 1st.

Saying happy new year in french involves knowing basic new year s greetings as well as learning french new year s greetings related to the season. New year s eve celebration in france. This traditional galette is made with a puff pastry base and a layer of marzipan.

Here in fontevraud locals eat oysters or moules à la marinière mussels and toast the french new year with a glass of crement de loire or one of the delicious pettilants wines from the caves of gratien et meyer vouvray or ackermans of saumur. New year s traditions in france. How to say happy new year in french.

They send new year s greeting cards instead. Our version pictured below is a caramelized apple galette des rois. New year s eve is now known by its saint s name la saint sylvestre and has ten local customs to observe.

Celebrating the new year is a little different in france than in the us. In france the new year s eve celebration is called le réveillon de la saint sylvestre. French people don t send christmas cards.