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France's Public Holidays

๋ฐ”์Šคํ‹ฐ์œ  ๋ฐ์ด ์—ํŽ ํƒ‘ ๋ถˆ๊ฝƒ๋†€์ด
๐Ÿ‡ซ๐Ÿ‡ท ๋ฌธํ™”

ํ”„๋ž‘์Šค๊ฐ€ ์ผ ๋…„์— ์‰ฌ๋Š” ๋‚ ์€ 11์ผ — ๊ทธ์ค‘ ๊ฐ€์žฅ ๋œจ๊ฑฐ์šด ํ•˜๋ฃจ, ๋ฐ”์Šคํ‹ฐ์œ  ๋ฐ์ด

7์›” 14์ผ ํ˜๋ช…๊ธฐ๋…์ผ๋ถ€ํ„ฐ, ํ”„๋ž‘์Šค ๋ฒ•์ •๊ณตํœด์ผ ์™„์ „์ •๋ฆฌ

ํ”„๋ž‘์Šค์—๋Š” ๋ฒ•์œผ๋กœ ์ •ํ•œ ๊ณตํœด์ผ์ด 1๋…„์— ๋”ฑ 11์ผ ์žˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ๊ทธ์ค‘์—์„œ๋„ ๋ฌธํ™”์ ·์—ญ์‚ฌ์  ๋ฌด๊ฒŒ๊ฐ€ ๊ฐ€์žฅ ํฐ ๋‚ ์„ ํ•˜๋‚˜๋งŒ ๊ผฝ์œผ๋ผ๋ฉด, ๋‹จ์—ฐ 7์›” 14์ผ ํ˜๋ช…๊ธฐ๋…์ผ — ์ด๋ฅธ๋ฐ” ๋ฐ”์Šคํ‹ฐ์œ  ๋ฐ์ด์ž…๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ์ด ํ•˜๋ฃจ๋ฅผ ์ œ๋Œ€๋กœ ์•Œ๋ฉด, ํ”„๋ž‘์Šค๋ผ๋Š” ๋‚˜๋ผ๋ฅผ ์ดํ•ดํ•˜๋Š” ๋ฐ ๊ฝค ๋งŽ์€ ํžŒํŠธ๋ฅผ ์–ป์„ ์ˆ˜ ์žˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.

2026๋…„ 9์›” ๊ธฐ์ค€ · ํ†ต์„ค๋กœ ์•Œ๋ ค์ง„ ์—ญ์‚ฌ์  ์‚ฌ์‹ค์„ ๋ฐ”ํƒ•์œผ๋กœ ์ •๋ฆฌํ–ˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค

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๋ฐ”์Šคํ‹ฐ์œ  ๋ฐ์ด๋ž€ ๋ฌด์—‡์ธ๊ฐ€

1789๋…„ 7์›” 14์ผ, ํŒŒ๋ฆฌ ์‹œ๋ฏผ๋“ค์ด ๋ฐ”์Šคํ‹ฐ์œ  ๊ฐ์˜ฅ์„ ์Šต๊ฒฉํ–ˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ํ”„๋ž‘์Šค ํ˜๋ช…์˜ ์‹œ์ž‘์„ ์•Œ๋ฆฌ๋Š” ์‚ฌ๊ฑด์œผ๋กœ ๊ผฝํžˆ๋Š” ๋‚ ์ž…๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.

๋ฐ”์Šคํ‹ฐ์œ ๋Š” ์›๋ž˜ ์š”์ƒˆ์˜€๋‹ค๊ฐ€, ๊ตญ์™•์—๊ฒŒ ๋ฐ˜ํ•˜๋Š” ์ •์น˜๋ฒ”์„ ๊ฐ€๋‘๋Š” ๊ฐ์˜ฅ์œผ๋กœ ์“ฐ์˜€์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ์‹œ๋ฏผ๋“ค์ด ์ด๊ณณ์„ ์Šต๊ฒฉํ•œ ๊ฑด ๊ฐ์˜ฅ ์ž์ฒด๋ณด๋‹ค๋Š” ๊ทธ ์•ˆ์— ์žˆ๋˜ ํ™”์•ฝ๊ณผ ๋ฌด๊ธฐ ๋•Œ๋ฌธ์ด์—ˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ์™•์ •์ด ๊ตฐ๋Œ€๋ฅผ ๋™์›ํ•  ๊ฑฐ๋ผ๋Š” ๋ถˆ์•ˆ์ด ํŒŒ๋ฆฌ์— ํผ์ ธ ์žˆ์—ˆ๊ณ , ์‹œ๋ฏผ๋“ค์€ ์Šค์Šค๋กœ๋ฅผ ๋ฌด์žฅํ•˜๋ ค ํ–ˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.

ํฅ๋ฏธ๋กœ์šด ๊ฑด, ์ •์ž‘ ์Šต๊ฒฉ ๋‹น์ผ ๋ฐ”์Šคํ‹ฐ์œ ์— ๊ฐ‡ํ˜€ ์žˆ๋˜ ์ •์น˜๋ฒ”์€ ๋‹จ 7๋ช…๋ฟ์ด์—ˆ๋‹ค๋Š” ์‚ฌ์‹ค์ž…๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ๊ทธ๋Ÿผ์—๋„ ๋ฐ”์Šคํ‹ฐ์œ  ์Šต๊ฒฉ์€ '์ „์ œ์™•์ •์˜ ์ƒ์ง•์ด ๋ฌด๋„ˆ์ง„ ์‚ฌ๊ฑด'์œผ๋กœ ๋ฐ›์•„๋“ค์—ฌ์กŒ๊ณ , ์ดํ›„ ํ”„๋ž‘์Šค ํ˜๋ช… ์ „์ฒด๋ฅผ ์ƒ์ง•ํ•˜๋Š” ์žฅ๋ฉด์ด ๋์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.

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์™œ ํ•˜ํ•„ 7์›” 14์ผ์ธ๊ฐ€ — ์ž˜ ์•Œ๋ ค์ง€์ง€ ์•Š์€ ์ด์œ 

ํ”„๋ž‘์Šค๊ฐ€ 7์›” 14์ผ์„ ๊ตญ๊ฒฝ์ผ๋กœ ๊ณต์‹ ์ง€์ •ํ•œ ๊ฑด 1880๋…„์ž…๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ๊ทธ๋Ÿฐ๋ฐ ์ด ๋ฒ•์„ ๋งŒ๋“ค ๋•Œ, ์‹ค์ œ๋กœ๋Š” ๋‘ ์‚ฌ๊ฑด์„ ๋™์‹œ์— ๊ธฐ๋…ํ•˜๋„๋ก ์˜๋„์ ์œผ๋กœ ๋ชจํ˜ธํ•˜๊ฒŒ ํ‘œํ˜„ํ–ˆ๋‹ค๋Š” ์‚ฌ์‹ค์€ ์ž˜ ์•Œ๋ ค์ ธ ์žˆ์ง€ ์•Š์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.

ํ•˜๋‚˜๋Š” 1789๋…„์˜ ๋ฐ”์Šคํ‹ฐ์œ  ์Šต๊ฒฉ์ด๊ณ , ๋‹ค๋ฅธ ํ•˜๋‚˜๋Š” ๊ทธ๋กœ๋ถ€ํ„ฐ ์ •ํ™•ํžˆ 1๋…„ ๋’ค์ธ 1790๋…„ 7์›” 14์ผ์— ์—ด๋ฆฐ ์—ฐ๋งน์ œ(Fรชte de la Fรฉdรฉration)์ž…๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ์—ฐ๋งน์ œ๋Š” ํ˜๋ช… 1์ฃผ๋…„์„ ๊ธฐ๋…ํ•ด ํ”„๋ž‘์Šค ์ „์—ญ์˜ ๋Œ€ํ‘œ๋“ค์ด ํŒŒ๋ฆฌ์— ๋ชจ์—ฌ ํ™”ํ•ฉ์„ ๋‹ค์งํ•œ ํ–‰์‚ฌ์˜€์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ์œ ํ˜ˆ ์‚ฌํƒœ์˜€๋˜ ์ „์ž์™€ ๊ตญ๋ฏผ์  ํ™”ํ•ฉ์„ ์ƒ์ง•ํ•˜๋Š” ํ›„์ž๋ฅผ, ํ•œ ๋‚ ์งœ์— ํ•จ๊ป˜ ๋‹ด์€ ์…ˆ์ž…๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.

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์˜ค๋Š˜๋‚  ์–ด๋–ป๊ฒŒ ๊ธฐ๋…ํ•˜๋‚˜

๋งค๋…„ 7์›” 14์ผ ์•„์นจ, ์ƒน์ ค๋ฆฌ์ œ ๊ฑฐ๋ฆฌ์—์„œ ๊ตฐ์‚ฌ ํผ๋ ˆ์ด๋“œ๊ฐ€ ์—ด๋ฆฝ๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. 1880๋…„๋ถ€ํ„ฐ ์ด์–ด์ง„, ์„ธ๊ณ„์—์„œ ๊ฐ€์žฅ ์˜ค๋ž˜๋œ ์ •๊ธฐ ๊ตฐ์‚ฌ ํผ๋ ˆ์ด๋“œ ์ค‘ ํ•˜๋‚˜์ž…๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ๋Œ€ํ†ต๋ น์ด ์ง์ ‘ ์ฐธ๊ด€ํ•˜๊ณ , ๋งค๋…„ ์ดˆ์ฒญ๋˜๋Š” ์™ธ๊ตญ ์ •์ƒ๋„ ์žˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.

์ €๋…์—๋Š” ์—ํŽ ํƒ‘์„ ๋ฐฐ๊ฒฝ์œผ๋กœ ํ•œ ๋ถˆ๊ฝƒ๋†€์ด๊ฐ€ ํ”„๋ž‘์Šค ์ „์—ญ TV๋กœ ์ค‘๊ณ„๋ฉ๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ๊ทธ๋ฆฌ๊ณ  ํŒŒ๋ฆฌ ๊ณณ๊ณณ์˜ ์†Œ๋ฐฉ์„œ์—์„œ๋Š” ์†Œ๋ฐฉ๊ด€ ๋ฌด๋„ํšŒ(Bal des pompiers)๊ฐ€ ์—ด๋ ค, ์‹œ๋ฏผ ๋ˆ„๊ตฌ๋‚˜ ์ถค์ถ”๋ฉฐ ํ•จ๊ป˜ ์ฆ๊ธธ ์ˆ˜ ์žˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.

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ํ”„๋ž‘์Šค ๋ฒ•์ • ๊ณตํœด์ผ 11์ผ, ํ•œ๋ˆˆ์—

๋‚ ์งœ๋ช…์นญ๋น„๊ณ 
1์›” 1์ผ์ƒˆํ•ด (Jour de l'An)๊ณ ์ •
๋ถ€ํ™œ์ ˆ ๋‹ค์Œ ์›”์š”์ผ๋ถ€ํ™œ์ ˆ ์›”์š”์ผ (Lundi de Pรขques)๊ฐ€๋ณ€
5์›” 1์ผ๋…ธ๋™์ ˆ (Fรชte du Travail)๊ณ ์ •
5์›” 8์ผ1945๋…„ ์Šน์ „๊ธฐ๋…์ผ (Victoire 1945)๊ณ ์ •
๋ถ€ํ™œ์ ˆ+39์ผ(๋ชฉ)์˜ˆ์ˆ˜์Šน์ฒœ๋Œ€์ถ•์ผ (Ascension)๊ฐ€๋ณ€
์„ฑ๋ น๊ฐ•๋ฆผ ๋‹ค์Œ ์›”์š”์ผ์„ฑ๋ น๊ฐ•๋ฆผ ์›”์š”์ผ (Lundi de Pentecรดte)๊ฐ€๋ณ€
7์›” 14์ผํ˜๋ช…๊ธฐ๋…์ผ (Fรชte Nationale)๊ณ ์ •
8์›” 15์ผ์„ฑ๋ชจ์Šน์ฒœ๋Œ€์ถ•์ผ (Assomption)๊ณ ์ •
11์›” 1์ผ๋ชจ๋“ ์„ฑ์ธ๋Œ€์ถ•์ผ (Toussaint)๊ณ ์ •
11์›” 11์ผ1918๋…„ ํœด์ „๊ธฐ๋…์ผ (Armistice 1918)๊ณ ์ •
12์›” 25์ผํฌ๋ฆฌ์Šค๋งˆ์Šค (Noรซl)๊ณ ์ •

'๊ฐ€๋ณ€'์œผ๋กœ ํ‘œ์‹œํ•œ ๋‚ ์งœ๋Š” ๋งค๋…„ ๋ถ€ํ™œ์ ˆ ๋‚ ์งœ๋ฅผ ๊ธฐ์ค€์œผ๋กœ ๊ณ„์‚ฐ๋˜๊ธฐ ๋•Œ๋ฌธ์— ํ•ด๋งˆ๋‹ค ์กฐ๊ธˆ์”ฉ ๋‹ฌ๋ผ์ง‘๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.

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๊ทธ์ค‘์—์„œ๋„ ์˜๋ฏธ ๊นŠ์€ ๋‚ ๋“ค

5์›” 8์ผ — 1945๋…„ ์Šน์ „๊ธฐ๋…์ผ

2์ฐจ๋Œ€์ „ ์œ ๋Ÿฝ์ „์„  ์ข…์ „์„ ๊ธฐ๋…ํ•˜๋Š” ๋‚ ์ž…๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ํŒŒ๋ฆฌ ๊ฐœ์„ ๋ฌธ์—์„œ ๋Œ€ํ†ต๋ น์ด ๋ฌด๋ช…์šฉ์‚ฌ์˜ ๋ฌ˜์— ํ—Œํ™”ํ•˜๋Š” ๊ณต์‹ ํ–‰์‚ฌ๊ฐ€ ์—ด๋ฆฝ๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.

8์›” 15์ผ — ์„ฑ๋ชจ์Šน์ฒœ๋Œ€์ถ•์ผ

์ข…๊ต์ ์œผ๋กœ๋Š” ์„ฑ๋ชจ ๋งˆ๋ฆฌ์•„๊ฐ€ ํ•˜๋Š˜๋กœ ์Šน์ฒœํ–ˆ๋‹ค๋Š” ๊ฐ€ํ†จ๋ฆญ ๊ต๋ฆฌ๋ฅผ ๊ธฐ๋…ํ•˜๋Š” ๋‚ ์ด์ง€๋งŒ, ์‹ค์งˆ์ ์œผ๋กœ๋Š” ํ”„๋ž‘์Šค์ธ๋“ค์˜ ์—ฌ๋ฆ„ํœด๊ฐ€๊ฐ€ ์ ˆ์ •์— ์ด๋ฅด๋Š” ์‹œ์ ์ด๊ธฐ๋„ ํ•ฉ๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ์ด ๋ฌด๋ ต ํŒŒ๋ฆฌ๋Š” ํ˜„์ง€์ธ๋“ค์ด ์ž๋ฆฌ๋ฅผ ๋น„์šฐ๊ณ  ๊ด€๊ด‘๊ฐ๋งŒ ๋‚จ๋Š”, ์กฐ๊ธˆ ๋…ํŠนํ•œ ๋„์‹œ ํ’๊ฒฝ์ด ํŽผ์ณ์ง‘๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.

11์›” 1์ผ — ๋ชจ๋“ ์„ฑ์ธ๋Œ€์ถ•์ผ(Toussaint)

ํ”„๋ž‘์Šค์ธ๋“ค์ด ์กฐ์ƒ์˜ ๋ฌ˜๋ฅผ ์ฐพ์•„ ๊ตญํ™”๊ฝƒ์„ ๋†“๋Š” ํ’์Šต์ด ์žˆ๋Š” ๋‚ ์ž…๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ํ•œ๊ตญ์˜ ์ถ”์„ ์„ฑ๋ฌ˜ ๋ฌธํ™”์™€ ๊ฒฐ์ด ๋‹ฎ์€ ๊ตฌ์„์ด ์žˆ์–ด, ํ•œ๊ตญ์ธ ์—ฌํ–‰์ž์—๊ฒŒ๋Š” ํŠนํžˆ ํฅ๋ฏธ๋กœ์šด ์ง€์ ์ผ ์ˆ˜ ์žˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.

11์›” 11์ผ — 1918๋…„ ํœด์ „๊ธฐ๋…์ผ

1์ฐจ๋Œ€์ „ ์ข…์ „์„ ๊ธฐ๋…ํ•˜๋Š” ๋‚ ๋กœ, ๊ฐœ์„ ๋ฌธ์—์„œ ๋ฌด๋ช…์šฉ์‚ฌ ๋ฌ˜ ํ—Œํ™”์‹์ด ์—ด๋ฆฝ๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.

์—ฌํ–‰ ๊ณ„ํš์ด ์ด ๋‚ ๋“ค๊ณผ ๊ฒน์นœ๋‹ค๋ฉด

๊ณตํœด์ผ์—๋Š” ์ƒ์  ๋Œ€๋ถ€๋ถ„์ด ๋ฌธ์„ ๋‹ซ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ๋ฐ•๋ฌผ๊ด€·๋ฏธ์ˆ ๊ด€์€ ๊ณณ๋งˆ๋‹ค ํœด๊ด€ ์—ฌ๋ถ€๊ฐ€ ๋‹ฌ๋ผ์„œ, ๋ฐฉ๋ฌธ ์ „ ํ™•์ธ์ด ํ•„์š”ํ•ฉ๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ๋Œ€์ค‘๊ตํ†ต์€ ๋Œ€์ฒด๋กœ ์ •์ƒ ์šดํ–‰ํ•˜์ง€๋งŒ ์ผ๋ถ€ ์ถ•์†Œ ์šดํ–‰๋  ์ˆ˜ ์žˆ์œผ๋‹ˆ ์—ฌ์œ ๋ฅผ ๋‘๊ณ  ์›€์ง์ด์„ธ์š”.

Bastille Day fireworks over the Eiffel Tower
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France Only Takes 11 Days Off a Year — Here's the Biggest One, Bastille Day

July 14th, and the full list of France's public holidays

France has exactly 11 legal public holidays a year. If you had to pick the one carrying the most cultural and historical weight, it's unquestionably July 14th — Bastille Day. Understanding this one day well tells you a surprising amount about the country itself.

As of September 2026 — based on widely documented historical facts

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What Bastille Day Actually Is

On July 14, 1789, Parisians stormed the Bastille prison. It's the event generally regarded as marking the start of the French Revolution.

The Bastille had originally been a fortress, later used to imprison political dissidents of the crown. What drew the crowd wasn't the prison itself so much as the gunpowder and weapons stored inside — Paris was gripped by fear that the monarchy would mobilize troops, and citizens wanted to arm themselves.

Here's the interesting part: on the actual day of the storming, only seven political prisoners were being held there. And yet the storming of the Bastille came to be read as the moment the symbol of absolute monarchy fell, and it became the defining image of the entire Revolution.

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Why July 14th — a Lesser-Known Reason

France officially designated July 14th a national holiday in 1880. What's less well known is that the law was deliberately written to commemorate two events at once.

One is the 1789 storming of the Bastille. The other is the Fรชte de la Fรฉdรฉration, held exactly one year later on July 14, 1790 — a celebration marking the Revolution's first anniversary, where delegates from across France gathered in Paris to pledge national unity. One date, holding both a violent uprising and a symbol of national reconciliation.

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How It's Celebrated Today

Every July 14th morning, a military parade marches down the Champs-ร‰lysรฉes — one of the oldest regularly held military parades in the world, running since 1880. The president attends in person, and a foreign head of state is often invited as guest of honor.

In the evening, fireworks over the Eiffel Tower are broadcast nationwide. And fire stations across Paris throw their own Bal des pompiers (firefighters' ball), open to anyone who wants to show up and dance.

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France's 11 Public Holidays, at a Glance

DateHolidayNote
Jan 1New Year's Day (Jour de l'An)Fixed
Day after EasterEaster Monday (Lundi de Pรขques)Variable
May 1Labour Day (Fรชte du Travail)Fixed
May 8Victory in Europe Day (Victoire 1945)Fixed
39 days after Easter (Thu)Ascension DayVariable
Day after PentecostWhit Monday (Lundi de Pentecรดte)Variable
Jul 14Bastille Day (Fรชte Nationale)Fixed
Aug 15Assumption Day (Assomption)Fixed
Nov 1All Saints' Day (Toussaint)Fixed
Nov 11Armistice Day 1918Fixed
Dec 25Christmas (Noรซl)Fixed

Dates marked "Variable" are calculated from Easter each year, so they shift slightly from year to year.

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The Ones That Carry the Most Weight

May 8 — Victory in Europe Day

Marks the end of WWII in Europe. The president lays a wreath at the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier beneath the Arc de Triomphe.

August 15 — Assumption Day

Religiously, it marks the Catholic belief that the Virgin Mary was taken up into heaven — but in practice, it also falls at the peak of the French summer vacation season. Around this time, Paris takes on an odd character: locals are away, and mostly tourists remain.

November 1 — All Saints' Day (Toussaint)

The day the French visit family graves and lay chrysanthemums. There's something here that echoes Korea's own ancestral grave-visit traditions during Chuseok — worth noticing if you're a Korean traveler.

November 11 — Armistice Day 1918

Marks the end of WWI, with a wreath-laying ceremony at the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier under the Arc de Triomphe.

If Your Trip Lands on One of These Dates

Most shops close on public holidays. Museums and galleries vary by location, so check before you go. Public transit generally runs as usual, though sometimes on a reduced schedule — build in some extra time.

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