--- title: 14 juillet, poisson d'avril and other French days — a lesson of Mova's school · trees and pragmatics description: «14 juillet, poisson d'avril and other French days», a lesson of the french course of Mova's primary school, sentence by sentence with dependency trees and pragmatics. It begins: France's year is dotted with special days, and each one has its own words, food or game. --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/french/33-14-juillet-poisson-d-avril-and-other-french-days/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [school](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/) / [French](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/french/) / 14 juillet, poisson d'avril and other… # 14 juillet, poisson d'avril and other French days Lesson 33 of the french course of Mova's primary school: 16 sentences, each with its syntax tree and pragmatics. The lessons are written for Mova, and their agreed trees are part of Mova corpus 0.4 (CC BY-SA 4.0). How Mova does on its tests: [the lesson at school](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/school-run/french/33-14-juillet-poisson-d-avril-and-other-french-days/). - [0](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/french/33-14-juillet-poisson-d-avril-and-other-french-days/0/) — France's year is dotted with special days, and each one has its own words, food or game. - [1](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/french/33-14-juillet-poisson-d-avril-and-other-french-days/1/) — The biggest is France's national day, which English speakers often call Bastille Day but French people call le 14 Juillet or la fête nationale: a parade in Paris in the morning, fireworks at night and dances at the fire station. - [2](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/french/33-14-juillet-poisson-d-avril-and-other-french-days/2/) — Picture 1 April in a French playground: children sneak up behind their friends and stick paper fish on their backs, then shout "Poisson d'avril !" - April fish, the French April fool. - [3](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/french/33-14-juillet-poisson-d-avril-and-other-french-days/3/) — At Easter, French children are told that church bells fly away to Rome and come back on Easter Sunday, dropping chocolate eggs into gardens. - [4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/french/33-14-juillet-poisson-d-avril-and-other-french-days/4/) — Other days are quieter: on 1 May people give little white flowers for luck, and on 11 November whole villages stand in silence at the war memorial. - [5](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/french/33-14-juillet-poisson-d-avril-and-other-french-days/5/) — France's national day is 14 July, le 14 Juillet or la fête nationale; English speakers often call it Bastille Day. - [6](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/french/33-14-juillet-poisson-d-avril-and-other-french-days/6/) — It remembers 14 July 1789, when people in Paris took the Bastille, a prison fortress. - [7](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/french/33-14-juillet-poisson-d-avril-and-other-french-days/7/) — On 14 July there is a big military parade (le défilé) on the Champs-Élysées, a famous avenue in Paris, planes trail blue, white and red smoke, and there are fireworks (le feu d'artifice) at night. - [8](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/french/33-14-juillet-poisson-d-avril-and-other-french-days/8/) — Around 14 July many fire stations hold a dance open to everyone, le bal des pompiers; les pompiers are the firefighters. - [9](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/french/33-14-juillet-poisson-d-avril-and-other-french-days/9/) — On 1 April French children stick paper fish on people's backs and shout "Poisson d'avril !" - the French April fool. - [10](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/french/33-14-juillet-poisson-d-avril-and-other-french-days/10/) — In France church bells are silent before Easter; children are told les cloches de Pâques fly to Rome and bring back chocolate eggs on Easter Sunday. - [11](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/french/33-14-juillet-poisson-d-avril-and-other-french-days/11/) — The Easter greeting is "Joyeuses Pâques !", with joyeuses, because Pâques is treated as feminine and plural in it. - [12](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/french/33-14-juillet-poisson-d-avril-and-other-french-days/12/) — On 1 May people give little bunches of lily of the valley, le muguet, for good luck; 1 May is also a public holiday, la fête du Travail. - [13](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/french/33-14-juillet-poisson-d-avril-and-other-french-days/13/) — On 21 June, la Fête de la musique, anyone can play music outside for free; it started in France and is now held in many countries. - [15](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/french/33-14-juillet-poisson-d-avril-and-other-french-days/15/) — In France Mother's Day (la fête des Mères) is usually the last Sunday of May and Father's Day (la fête des Pères) the third Sunday of June; Mothering Sunday in the UK is in March. - [16](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/french/33-14-juillet-poisson-d-avril-and-other-french-days/16/) — On 11 November people remember those who died in the First World War, which stopped on 11 November 1918; almost every town has a war memorial, le monument aux morts. - ← previous: [Christmas, Epiphany and pancake day French-style](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/french/32-christmas-epiphany-and-pancake-day-french-style/) - next →: [France and the French-speaking world](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/french/34-france-and-the-french-speaking-world/) - ↑ back to [French](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/french/)