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6 Things about Mother's Day and how to celebrate it with a French Touch in Perth

5- What French do on Mother’s Day ?

 

Mother’s day is a special day for our Mothers. The organisation of Mother’s day is made by the children, if the children are small with the help of their Dad. They can for example cook the food for her or bring her to the restaurant.

 

In school’s children will prepare with the help of their teachers some arts & craft presents such as the famous pasta necklace or other little present made with love. When children get older flowers, perfumes or jewellery replace this traditional presents.

6- How to Celebrate Mother’s day with a French Touch in Perth ?

 

Here are a few ideas of what you could do to celebrate Mother's Day the French way in Perth....

You can also have a look on our Calendar that will be updated until May 8th with news special events ...

We wish all the Mothers une " Bonne Fête Maman"

This article will tell you 6 things about Mother's Day the origins how we celebrate it in France and around the world and how to celebrate it with a French Touch in Perth.

 

2- Is Mother’s day on the same day in French Speaking countries and in Australia ?

 

Even if French speaking countries use the same calendar « la fête des mères » (Mother’s Day) does not fall on the same day. In France, Monaco and in various French speaking African countries it is celebrated the Last Sunday of May or First Sunday of June if Pentecost occurs on this day.

In Quebec, Switzerland and Belgium Mother's Day is celebrated on the Second Sunday of May, on the same date as in Australia.

In Luxembourg it is celebrated on the second Sunday of June.

 

4- What about in France ?

 

In France, alarmed at the low birth rate, there were attempts in 1896 and 1904 to create a national celebration honouring the mothers of large families.

 

Then American World War I soldiers fighting in France popularized the US Mother's Day holiday created by Anna Jarvis.

 

The town of Lyon, also inspired by Jarvis, celebrated in 1918 “la journée des mères” the day of the women in tribute to mothers and spouse who lost their sons and husbands during the First World War.

 

The holiday was more inspired by anti-depopulation efforts than by the US holiday, with official day made in 1920 with medals awarded to the mothers of large families.

 

The government formalise a day of mothers in 1929 to support a rising birth rate politics backed by the Republic.

The law of 24 May 1950 required that the Republic pay official homage to French Mothers. During the 1950s, the celebration lost all its patriotic and natalist ideologies, and became heavily commercialized.

3- What are the origins of Mother’s Day ?

 

 

The first traces of celebration to honour mothers are present in Antique Greece for the Spring ceremonies to honour Rhea the grandmother of Gods and mother of Zeus.

Even if various festivities around the theme of being a mother existed since Antiquity, we had to wait until the 16th Century for an annual recurring date for Mother’s day was acknowledged.

The modern American holiday of Mother's Day was first celebrated in 1908, when Anna Jarvis held a memorial for her mother at St Andrew's Methodist Church in Grafton, West Virginia.