Public holidays in
2005
Saturday 1 January -
New Year's Day (Jour de l'an)
Sunday 27 March -
Easter (Pâques)
Monday 28 March -
Easter Monday (Lundi de Pâques)
Sunday 1 May -
Labour Day (Fête du Travail)
Thursday 5 May -
Ascension Day (Ascension catholique)
Sunday 8 May -
VE Day - WWII Victory Day (Fête de la
Victoire 1945)
Monday 16 May -
Whit Monday (Lundi de Pentecôte)
Thursday 14 July -
Bastille Day (Fête nationale)
Monday 15 August -
Assumption of the Blessed Virgin Mary (Assomption)
Tuesday 1 November -
All Saints' Day (Toussaint)
Thursday 11 November
- Armistice Day (Armistice 1918)
Saturday 25 December
- Christmas Day (Noël)
French school holidays
in 2005 (Zone A)
Zone A covers:
Auvergne (Clermont-Ferrand)
Brittany (Rennes)
Languedoc-Roussillon (Montpellier)
Lorraine (Nancy / Metz)
Lower Normandy (Caen)
Midi-Pyrenees (Toulouse)
Pays de la Loire (Nantes)
Rhone-Alpes (Lyon / Grenoble)
12/02/05 to 28/02/05
- Winter holiday
22/04/05 to 09/05/05
- Spring holiday
02/07/05 to 02/09/05
- Summer holiday
22/10/05 to 03/11/05
- Toussaint holiday (All Saints) - Autumn
holiday
17/12/05 - 03/01/06
- Christmas holiday
French school holidays
in 2005 (Zone B)
Zone B covers:
Alsace (Strasbourg)
Burgundy (Dijon)
Centre (Orléans / Tours)
Champagne-Ardenne (Reims)
Franche-Comté (Besançon)
Limousin (Limoges)
Nord-Pas-de-Calais (Lille)
Picardy (Amiens)
Poitou-Charentes (Poitiers)
Provence Cote d'Azur (Aix-Marseille / Nice)
Upper Normandy (Rouen)
05/02/05 to 21/02/05
- Winter holiday
15/04/05 to 02/05/05
- Spring holiday
02/07/05 to 02/09/05
- Summer holiday
22/10/05 to 03/11/05
- Toussaint holiday (All Saints) - Autumn
holiday
17/12/05 - 03/01/06
- Christmas holiday
French school holidays
in 2005 (Zone C)
Zone C covers:
Aquitaine (Bordeaux)
Paris Ile-de-France (Créteil / Paris / Versailles)
19/02/05 to 07/03/05
- Winter holiday
08/04/05 to 24/04/05
- Spring holiday
02/07/05 to 02/09/05
- Summer holiday
22/10/05 to 03/11/05
- Toussaint holiday (All Saints) - Autumn
holiday
17/12/05 - 03/01/06
- Christmas holiday
