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Welcome to French Food
Focus. The name describes the intent of this blog. I'll focus on food
and because I live in rural
France the stress will be upon French food. There are numerous posts
concerning life in France and, certainly,
opinions
about anything that strikes my fancy.
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La fete des Mais - a tradition revived. Part 1
This morning our new town council resurrected
an old tradition: "La fete des Mais". Literally "the Corn Festival", but
really a very old tradition honoring the Earth Goddess which goes back to
pre-Christian times. It typically held on the Sunday following the longest
day of the year.
Here is the painted tree ready to be put in
place. This is the traditional offering. The location was outside the
village, but still in the commune. Just outside in fact of the new Mayor's
gate. Interesting.
As you can see we had a pretty
good turnout both young & old. About 75 people I'd estimate which is not
bad for a commune of only just over
400 people.
We had some nice decorations as
well as a 'friendly' drink before the actual raising of the pole. I
must say that the raising was done most efficiently. The guys seemed to be
well organized and know what they were doing. Here's a pretty self
explanatory set of pictures of the process. For the sake of scale I'd say
the pole is about 50 feet high.
For the rest of the story see
part 2 as this was only the start of the day's festivities.
You just have to love France
and the French when they do things like this. They do them well,
wholeheartedly and with a great sense of occasion and propriety. I love
it!
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