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Midnight Mass on Christmas Eve is an important French tradition. After church, people feast at a large late supper or reveillon.
A traditional dessert at this supper is a buche de Noel, a chocolate cake filled with whipped cream and shaped in the form of a Yule log.
Children receive gifts on December 6 and/or December 25, depending on which section of France they live. Instead of stockings, children leave out their shoes to be filled with goodies by Pere Noel.
Christmas in
Germany
In Germany, the Christmas tree is a popular tradition. This tradition began in the Middle Ages when folks would decorate evergreen boughs with apples.
As time passed, candles, cookies, blown glass ornaments, and paper cornucopias were added to the decorations.
Gingerbread people and houses, pfefferneuse cookies, and cinnamon star cookies are special Christmas treats in Germany.
On December 6, Weihnachtsmann walks the streets on the night of the 6th and leaves presents in the children’s shoes, which they have left “outside” their door. If they were bad, he leaves switches or coal. If they were good he leaves
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