🎉 How It's Celebrated
Ascension Day is the quintessential occasion for 'faire le pont' — the beloved French practice of taking Friday off to bridge the holiday to the weekend, creating a four-day break. Families use the long weekend for travel, countryside excursions, or the first trips of the summer season. Church services are held, particularly in Catholic parishes, and some villages maintain processions known as Rogations in the preceding days, when rural fields are blessed.
