{"id":26900,"date":"2017-05-10T13:10:06","date_gmt":"2017-05-10T11:10:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/french\/?p=26900"},"modified":"2017-05-10T12:54:56","modified_gmt":"2017-05-10T10:54:56","slug":"dont-forget-la-fete-des-meres","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/french\/dont-forget-la-fete-des-meres\/","title":{"rendered":"Don\u2019t Forget La F\u00eate Des M\u00e8res!"},"content":{"rendered":"

Mother\u2019s day is this weekend aux<\/a> \u00c9tats-Unis<\/strong>, but not everywhere else in the world. As la f\u00eate des m\u00e8res<\/strong> that matters to my mother approaches there are no ads to remind me because la f\u00eate<\/strong> is still a couple weeks away en France<\/strong>!<\/p>\n

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Photo<\/a> by Ken Mayer on Flicker. Licensed under CC BY 2.0.<\/p><\/div>\n

Holidays celebrating les m\u00e8res<\/strong> can be traced back to antiquity. La Gr\u00e8ce antique<\/strong> (Anceint Greece) celebrated Rh\u00e9a<\/strong><\/em>, the mother of Zeus<\/strong><\/em>, and la Rome antique<\/strong><\/a> (Ancient Rome) celebrated Matronalia<\/strong><\/em>, une f\u00eate<\/strong> for les m\u00e8res<\/strong> in Rome.<\/p>\n

In the 15th<\/sup> century, les Anglais<\/strong> (the English) started celebrating Mothering Sunday<\/em> au d\u00e9but du car\u00eame<\/strong> (at the start of Lent) then later le quatri\u00e8me dimanche du car\u00eame<\/strong> (the fourth Sunday of Lent).<\/p>\n

However, une Am\u00e9ricaine<\/strong>, Anna Jarvis, started the modern holiday in 1908. She was a caring person who pushed for a national holiday celebrating mothers after holding a memorial for sa m\u00e8re<\/strong>. Anna succeded in creating une f\u00eate<\/strong> for \u201cthe person who has done more for you than anyone in the world<\/em>\u201d and la f\u00eate des m\u00e8res<\/strong> spread from her home state of West Virginia across the entire country.<\/p>\n

Woodrow Wilson declared Mother’s Day a national holiday in 1914 and set the date as le deuxi\u00e8me dimanche de mai<\/strong> (the second Sunday of May). La f\u00eate<\/strong><\/a> then became an international sensation with many other countries adopting an official f\u00eate des m\u00e8res<\/strong> in the following years.<\/p>\n

Alors la f\u00eate des m\u00e8res n’est-elle pas le deuxi\u00e8me dimanche de mai ?<\/strong>
\nSo isn’t Mother’s day the second Sunday of May?<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

La date exacte<\/strong> (the exact date) of la f\u00eate des m\u00e8res<\/strong> changes depending on what country is celebrating the holiday. Les dates<\/strong> vary du deuxi\u00e8me dimanche de f\u00e9vrier au derni\u00e8re dimanche de novembre<\/strong> (from the second Sunday of February to the last Sunday of November).<\/p>\n

There is even quite the variation dans la francophonie<\/a><\/strong>:<\/p>\n

Le deuxi\u00e8me dimanche de mai :<\/strong>
\nThe second Sunday of May:<\/em><\/p>\n