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Culture & life

Quelle tradition populaire a lieu dans beaucoup de communes dans la nuit du 13 au 14 juillet ?

Translation: Which popular tradition takes place in many French towns during the night of 13 to 14 July?

  • ✕ Une chasse aux œufs An egg hunt Your answer
  • B Une course de chars A chariot race
  • ✓ Un bal des pompiers A firefighters' ball (bal des pompiers)
  • D Un défilé de masques A parade of masks

Not quite.

Les pompiers ouvrent souvent les portes de leur caserne pour un bal populaire, avant le défilé et le feu d'artifice du 14 juillet. C'est une tradition festive de la Fête nationale.

Firefighters often open their station doors for a public dance, before the parade and fireworks of 14 July. It is a festive tradition of the national holiday.

Source: Encyclopédie Larousse – Bal des pompiers / Fête nationale

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