Today May 1 Day: Lesson to be remembered from France
This article was automatically translated from HIBAPRESS, the Arabic version:
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May 1 is traditionally the occasion for popular gatherings and parades. But what do we celebrate exactly and since when? Small historical return on the origins of this day and on its symbols in five questions.
2 when is May 1 celebrated in France?
It was on the occasion of the centenary of the French Revolution, in 1889, during the 2nd Socialist International in Paris and under the leadership of Jules Guesde, that it is decided to make May 1 a day of demonstrations. It was celebrated for the first time on May 1, 1890. In 1891, the demonstration of May 1 turned to the drama with the shooting of Fourmies in the North which ends with the death of a dozen demonstrators.
In April 1919, after the voting by the Parliament of the eight -hour day, May 1 became a unemployed day.
In 1941, under the Vichy regime, was established on May 1, a holiday as “labor and social concord” (in reference to the motto of the Vichy “work, family, homeland” regime). This day disappears at the Liberation.
It was reintroduced in 1946 then with law 47-778 of April 30, 1947 before being definitively established as a holiday, unemployed and paid in 1948 (law 48-746 of April 29, 1948).
