Easter in Paris

Children all over Paris are waking up this morning to discover a stash of chocolate eggs. The Easter Bell is back in town!

Because bunnies in France are for eating, the important task of holiday candy distribution falls instead to a bell. As far as I can work out, the local church bell stops tolling in Paris during the week before Easter and flies off to visit Rome. It hangs out with the Pope and other bells from around the world in a sort of ding-dong jubilee. It then flies back to Paris on the night before Easter, carrying souvenirs for the children.

These take the form of chocolate eggs, chickens and fish, which are way more delicious than any “my bell went to Rome and all I got was this lousy t-shirt” souvenir.

Here’s a selection of snaps from holiday window displays this week. Joyeuse Pâques!

Easter eggs from Le Grenier De Félix

Candy ducks from Le Grenier à Pain

Bunnies and eggs at Coquelicot