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The great French fashion designers also contributed to this return to favor at the same time by offering sprigs of lily of the valley to their employees and clients. Christian Dior also made the flower the emblem of his brand.

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It was not until 1941, under Marshal Pétain (France), that lily of the valley was officially associated with the “festival of labor and social harmony” established by the head of the Vichy regime. The latter in fact prefers the white flower to the red wild rose, the latter being too associated with the left and communism for his taste.

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During the French Revolution, lily of the valley was linked not to May 1 but to the “Republican Day” of Floréal 7 (April 26) in the Fabre d'Eglantine calendar. It is then the red wild rose which is associated with May 1, and which will be associated with workers for a long time. A hundred years later, for the first International Workers' Day, in 1889, demonstrators wore a red triangle, quickly replaced by the red wild rose. A tribute to Fabre d’Eglantine, but not only that. The flower is widely cultivated in the north of France, where large worker gatherings take place. One of them, on May 1, 1891 in Fourmies, was violently repressed, leaving nine demonstrators dead and thirty-five injured. The red wild rose also symbolizes this spilled blood.

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Roots that go back to Antiquity The history of this habit goes back a long way. In ancient Rome, flowering was already celebrated around the end of April and the beginning of May. The Celts had a comparable festival, Beltaine, which marked the transition from the dark to the light season.

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Several historical anecdotes date the tradition back to the time of Charles IX. On May 1, 1560, the king was offered a sprig of lily of the valley during a visit to Dauphiné. He would have appreciated the gesture so much that he would have decided to take up this idea to offer, every spring, a sprig of lily of the valley to the ladies of the court. Although difficult to verify, this episode is often reported in stories around Charles IX, such as the novel Charly 9, by Jean Teulé, published in 2011.

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May 1st, International Workers’ Day, is also “Lily of the Valley Festival”. Every year, the tradition is to offer small sprigs of this flower to loved ones, purchased from a florist or from one of the many stands that occupy the public highway especially for the occasion (a tolerated practice, provided to respect certain rules). But where does this custom come from?

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