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To: marshmallow
Here is the list of French holidays from Wikipedia.

Date English name Local name Remarks
1 January New Year's Day Premier de l'an / Jour de l' an
moveable Good Friday Vendredi Saint Friday before Easter (observed only in Alsace and Moselle)
moveable Easter Monday Lundi de Pâques Monday after Easter (one day after Easter)
1 May May Day/Labour Day Fête du Travail
8 May Victory in Europe Day Victoire 1945 End of hostilities in Europe in World War II
moveable Ascension Day Ascension Thursday, 39 days after Easter
moveable Whit Monday Lundi de Pentecôte Monday after Pentecost (49 days after Easter)
14 July Bastille Day Fête Nationale National Day
15 August Assumption of Mary to Heaven Assomption
1 November All Saints' Day Toussaint
11 November Veterans Day
Armistice Day
Remembrance Day
Armistice 1918 End of World War I
25 December Christmas Day Noël
26 December St. Stephen's Day Saint Etienne Observed only in Alsace and Moselle

The Christian holidays for the full country are: Monday after Easter, Ascension, Whit Monday, Assumption of Mary, All Saints' and Christmas. Assuming they want to keep Christmas, which two of the remaining five will be forcibly converted?

13 posted on 09/27/2013 7:46:41 PM PDT by KarlInOhio (Everyone get online for Obamacare on 10/1. Overload the system and crash it hard!)
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To: KarlInOhio
My guess: Low Monday and Whit Monday will be kept, not because of their religious importance (they are minor feasts) but because they create three day weekends.

The Assumption and Ascension are most likely to go, despite being major feasts and Holy Days of Obligation, because the Assumption is not moveable and the Ascension is always on Thursday.

Good Friday will be kept because it creates a four day weekend and because it is also a great solemnity to boot.

Christmas and All Saints are too festive, and Christmas is too important, to be discarded.

She is only suggesting Yom Kippur so as not to be seen as openly kowtowing to Islam.

But the whole point of this exercise is to diminish Christianity and valorize Islam.

Eid al-Adha, which is the most important holiday in every Muslim sect's calendar, last four days.

She, being stupid, probably does not know this.

27 posted on 09/27/2013 8:15:47 PM PDT by wideawake
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