Fete du Travail

[le petit bouquet de muguet]

Now, 01/05 is a world well known holiday for Workers,

Today, my flatmate gave me a petit bouquet de muguet,
as a gift of 1st of May, wishing my luck of this year.
That's very sweet.

Thanks to wikipedia, I could know the the origin of this gift.

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En France, au début du XX^e siècle, il devient habituel,
à l'occasion du 1^er mai, d'offrir un brin de muguet,
symbole du printemps en Île-de-France.
Une tolérance de l'administration fiscale permet aux particuliers
et aux organisations de travailleurs de vendre les brins de muguet
sans formalités ni taxes.

Fete du Travail/wikipedia fr [link]
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In france, the begining of 20 centry, giving a branch of the flower
(a lily of the velly), the symbol of spring of ile-de-France,
at 1st of May became a custom.
One tolerant financial administration permited individuals or
organiations to sell the branch of the flower without tax.
[transration in Eng]
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In this season, some of French people take a small vacation,
as well as Julien, my other flat mate, who heading to U.S for 10days.
(But that's a long one. normally this year, it is 4 days off, including weekend.)

In my office, we took a week off as well, since we'd participated in Milan salone,
some of us need a vacation.