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| Square Maurice Kriegel-Valrimont, a lovely neighbourhood park |
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| La Manifestation |
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| La Cremaillere Restaurant |
Fiesta 2013
Follow the adventures of our intrepid travellers, Bruce and Virginia Rosen,
as they explore the high and low life of London, Paris, Madrid and
the villages in the South of France.
Sunday, May 26, 2013
La Fête des Méres
La Fête des Méres (Mothers' Day) is celebrated on different dates in different European countries but today was France's turn. Florists do a big trade on Sunday with people taking flowers when the go for family lunch. Today, however, there were long queues at the flower shops. It looked to us as if Mothers' Day here is celebrated much as in Australia with a long lunch either at home or in a restaurant. This may be followed by an outing to a local park.
This Mothers' Day was a bit different with a demonstration (la manifestation) against the new same-sex marriage law. As usual, estimates of the size of the crowd differed. The organizers put the number at over 1,000,000 but the Police were a bit more conservative estimating 150,000 participants. From what we saw on the television we felt that the number was somewhere in between.
We had been invited to a function at the American Cathedral but decided, since it would take us through the middle of the demonstration, that it was better to be prudent than valiant and went out for lunch at one of our favourite restaurants instead.
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