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OFFICIAL PUBLIC HOLIDAYS FOR 2005

  • New Year's Day (Jour de l'an): Saturday, January 1

  • Easter Monday (Lundi de Pâques): Monday, March 28

  • Labor day (Fête du travail): Sunday, May 1

  • Ascension (Ascension): Thursday, May 5

  • Victory day 1945 (Victoire 1945): Thursday, May 8

  • Whit Monday (Lundi de Pentecôte): Monday, May 16

  • Bastille Day (Fête nationale): Thursday, July 14

  • Assumption day (Assomption): Monday, August 15

  • All saints day (Toussaint): Tuesday, November 1

  • Armistice day 1918 (Armistice 1918): Friday, November 11

  • Christmas (Noël): Sunday, December 25