Floral Friday

 Small pots of traditional muguets take center stage at a local primeur.

- Happy Fête du Travail weekend -

May 1, 2026

Fête du Travail

 

 

May Day mania sweeps Paris on La Fête du Travail every May 1st when work grinds to a halt and the sweet fragrance of tiny muguets fill street corners and florists' doorways.

Worker Wednesday

 It's May 1st, La Fête du Travail, Labor Day, celebrated by giving muguets.

 

 

Muguet Monday

 

 
Muguets herald in the 1st of May at the Bastille market.

1er mai

 Happy Fête du Travail 2021

Quiet fête

Place Marcel Aymé three weeks ago.

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Today is Labor Day, La Fête du Travail, in France.

- Traditional muguets can be found at florists, grocery stores and on many street corners -

Market muguets

May 1st is La Fête du Travail, Labor Day, when muguets or lilies of the valley are given to loved ones.

Above: a forest of muguets for sale at an open-air market

Below: blooms for the lunch table; bright gariguette strawberries, back in season 

More muguets

Last chance to give a muguet, a tradition that began when King Charles IX of France was presented with a bouquet as a token for luck and prosperity on May 1, 1561.

Morning muguet

May 1st is the Fête du Travail when vendors will be on almost every corner selling muguets.

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- Please give a muguet today to someone disabled, homeless, or who lives alone -
Years ago my daughter and I started this up, liaising with local florists

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Below: muguets at a Left Bank flower shop