All Saints Day

Hi everyone! I will be in France next week and just realized that Tuesday is All Saints Day. Now, I don%26#39;t know much about this holiday, but Tuesday is one of the days that I plan to be in Paris.

For the local experts, is this holiday one such that places will be closed and deserted, like here on x-mas and Thanksgiving?

Thanks for reading. . .

Cheers!

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All Saints Day ( November 1 ) is a public holiday.

Museums and Monuments maybe closed or vary the opening times.

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I was there last year on Nov. 1, and a lot was closed, but enough was open that it was ok. Small shops and restaurants were closed, those in the touristy areas were open, for example...

Les

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Everything is open on Thanksgiving over here :-)

D%26#39;orsay will be open for All Saints Day, but most of the other museums will be closed, as they are always closed on Tuesdays.

The Marais is often a good place to head when the rest of the city is closed for Catholic Holidays.

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All larger stores/restaurants/cafés in the one digit arrondissements will remain open as usual. I know phread likes to think that Paris is a kind of 1930s Krakow with an oppressive mass going majority keeping a ghetto in its heart, but there is hardly any discrepancy on the opening status of businesses in what she calls %26quot;Le Marais%26quot; (ie one street thereof) and the rest of Paris on any day of the year, %26quot;Catholic holiday%26quot; or not. The shops and cafés on rue Sainte Croix de la Bretonnerie or rue des Francs Bourgeois don%26#39;t remain open on Sundays because they are not Catholic, but because it%26#39;s a highly touristy neighborhood and, as such, are allowed by the Préfecture to remain open on Sundays.

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Go to a cemetary and see a sort of family celebration. Many people bring family and put flowers on tombs of loved ones who are departed, and sometimes have a picnic. The florist sell the most flowers on this day so the cemetaries are full of flowers. I think Pere Lachaise is the most interesting to visit. The Seine is never closed and you can also visit Notre Dame.

Linda

www.lindamathieu.com

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Thanks everyone. . .very useful info!!

:)