Kind of like Memorial Day in the States, it's a spring holiday where folks get together outdoors and do a fair amount of barbecuing. We spent the day with friends from church at a big park near Lac du Bourget.
Tuesday, August 13, 2013
Jour de la Libération
OK, this post is super old, but we wanted to share it nonetheless. The picture below is of a WWII monument near our apartment. May 8 in France is celebrated as le Jour de la Liberation, i.e. liberation from Nazi Germany, or V-E Day as we know it in the U.S.
Kind of like Memorial Day in the States, it's a spring holiday where folks get together outdoors and do a fair amount of barbecuing. We spent the day with friends from church at a big park near Lac du Bourget.
Kind of like Memorial Day in the States, it's a spring holiday where folks get together outdoors and do a fair amount of barbecuing. We spent the day with friends from church at a big park near Lac du Bourget.
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