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    Christmas in France is a major annual celebration, as in most countries of the Christian world. Christmas is celebrated as a public holiday in France...
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    remain popular. Christmas Eve and Christmas Day church services often came to feature Nativity plays, as did schools and theatres. In France, Germany, Mexico...
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    The observance of Christmas around the world varies by country. The day of Christmas, and in some cases the day before and the day after, are recognized...
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    carols of French origin. Christmas carols may be regarded as a subset of the broader category of Christmas music. The first known Christmas hymns may...
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    Child") is a Christmas market held annually in Strasbourg, France, on the Grande Île, near Strasbourg Cathedral and the Place Kléber. It draws in approximately...
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    A Christmas market is a street market associated with the celebration of Christmas during the four weeks of Advent. These markets originated in Germany...
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    Christmas (the twelve days that make up the Christmas season, starting with Christmas Day). The carol, whose words were first published in England in...
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  • The Nightmare Before Christmas (also known as Tim Burton's The Nightmare Before Christmas) is a 1993 American stop-motion animated musical fantasy film...
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    dessèrts) are the traditional dessert foods used to celebrate Christmas in the French region of Provence. The "big supper" (le gros souper) ends with...
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    release in 1984, "Last Christmas" spent five consecutive weeks at number two in the UK singles chart—it was held off the top spot at Christmas by Band...
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    (bûche de Noël) is a very French tradition during Christmas. Chocolate and cakes also occupy a prominent place for Christmas in France. This cuisine is normally...
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    Quince cheese (category Christmas in France)
    foods used in celebrating Christmas in the French region of Provence. In the city of Orléans, the cotignac is a speciality since middle age. In Serbia, especially...
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    The Christmas truce (German: Weihnachtsfrieden; French: Trêve de Noël; Dutch: Kerstbestand) was a series of widespread unofficial ceasefires along the...
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    62750°E / -10.49000; 105.62750 The Territory of Christmas Island is an Australian external territory in the Indian Ocean comprising the island of the same...
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    separated. With the atheistic Cult of Reason in power during the era of the French Revolution, Christian Christmas religious services were banned and the three...
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  • in ten years, following Closer to the Truth (2013). It was also her first Christmas album. Cher first announced a plan to record a Christmas album in...
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  • Christmas Carole (French: Un Noël en Famille) is a 2024 French Christmas comedy film directed by Jeanne Gottesdiener in her feature directorial debut...
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    Père Noël (category Christmas in France)
    (French pronunciation: [pɛʁ nɔ.ɛl]), "Father Christmas", sometimes called 'Papa Noël' ("Daddy Christmas"), is a legendary gift-bringer at Christmas in...
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  • A Christmas Tale (French: Un conte de Noël) is a 2008 French Christmas comedy-drama film co-written and directed by Arnaud Desplechin, starring Catherine...
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    Christmas in July, also known as Christmas in Summer or Christmas in Winter, is a second Christmas celebration held on 25 July that falls outside the traditional...
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    Rakeem Haleek Christmas (born December 1, 1991) is an American professional basketball player. He played college basketball for the Syracuse Orange for...
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    Christmas Carol. In Prose. Being a Ghost Story of Christmas, commonly known as A Christmas Carol, is a novella by Charles Dickens, first published in...
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  • Like Christmas" is a Christmas song written in 1951 by Meredith Willson. The song was originally titled "It's Beginning to Look Like Christmas". The...
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    Santa Claus (redirect from Christmas grotto)
    as Saint Nicholas, Saint Nick, Father Christmas, Kris Kringle, or Santa) is a legendary figure originating in Western Christian culture who is said to...
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    Christmas beers. French brewers market bière de mars ("March beer"), or bière de printemps ("Spring beer") over the month of March. It is produced in...
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  • literature and in music. Filmmakers have picked up on this wealth of material, with both adaptations of Christmas novels, in the forms of Christmas films, Santa...
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    Christmas Eve is the evening or entire day before Christmas Day, the festival commemorating the birth of Jesus. Christmas Day is observed around the world...
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    Père Fouettard (category Christmas in France)
    Father Christmas) is about Père Fouettard's son having a crush on Santa Claus' daughter. Another French pop star, Alain DeLorme, mentioned him in the song...
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  • "Do They Know It's Christmas?" is a charity song written in 1984 by Bob Geldof and Midge Ure to raise money for the 1983–1985 famine in Ethiopia. It was...
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  • A Boy Called Christmas is a 2021 British Christmas fantasy film directed by Gil Kenan from a screenplay by Ol Parker and Kenan, based on the 2015 book...
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