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Our Christmas Réveillon—A Franco Custom

At Christmas, it was a Franco custom to have an all-night party—a réveillon—after the midnight mass. The following excerpt is from my French Boy / A 1950s Franco-American Childhood. ___ For our first Christmas in our new home, my parents hosted a Christmas réveillon for both sides of the family. We children grew excited witnessing the preparations in the days prior to the réveillon when the tourtières, cookies, pies, and cakes were being baked. (“Just one cookie, but no more,” my mother must have repeated many times. “We have to save these for the réveillon.”) Because my grandparents were still

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