Lily of the valley: When an Internatonal Workers' Day tradition in France 'becomes bourgeois'
- Posted on May 1, 2025
- By Le Monde
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Lily of the valley: When an Internatonal Workers' Day tradition in France 'becomes bourgeois'
COLUMN. Over 1 million French households purchased lily of the valley flowers in 2024, a volume that's declining over several years. The flower, linked to International Workers' Day, is still produced in western France, but now mainly comes from Hamburg, observes Le Monde's Laurence Girard.
