French festivals and celebrations

Festivals and Celebrations are a part of the new GCSE syllabus, and we are always looking for cultural aspects to include in our French lessons in Key Stage 2.  Yesterday's post had a list of Spanish special days, so today here is the list for French.  Again, if I have missed any, please let me know in the comments.

You can download my French Festivals and Celebrations Tarsia and dominoes here.

le Jour de l'An	1st January	New Year's Day
la Fête des Rois	6th January	Epiphany
la Chandeleur	2nd February	Candlemas
Saint-Valentin	14th February	Valentine's Day
Carnaval	February, leading up to Lent	Carnival
Mardi Gras	Tuesday in February	Shrove Tuesday
la Fête du Citron	February/March	The Lemon Festival
Pâques	March/April	Easter
Lundi de Pâques	March/April	Easter Monday
Journée Internationale de la Francophonie	20th March	International Francophonie Day
Poisson d’avril	1st April	April Fool’s Day
la Fête du Travail	1st May	Labour Day
8 mai 1945	8th May	VE Day
Lundi de Pentecôte	May	Pentecost
Jeudi de l'Ascension	May	Ascension
la Fête des Mères	last Sunday in May	Mother’s Day
la Fête des Pères	3rd Sunday in June	Father’s Day
la Fête de la Musique	21st June	Music Day
le Tour de France	July	the Tour de France
la Fête Nationale	14th July	Bastille Day
l'Assomption	15th August	Assumption of Mary
la Rentrée	beginning of September	the return to school
la Toussaint	1st November	All Saints' Day
l’Armistice / le 11 novembre	11th November	the Armistice, Remembrance Day
la Veille de Noël	24th December	Christmas Eve
Noël	25th December	Christmas
la Saint-Sylvestre	31st December	New Year's Eve