Truce of the confectioners

The truce of the confectioners was in the beginning called the truce of Christmas in reference to the period of Christmas of the First World War: the soldiers of the Western face were exhausted and shocked by the extent of the human losses which they had undergone since August. In the small hour of December 25th, the Britanniques which held the Tranchées around the Belgian city of Ypres intended Christmas carols to come from the enemy positions, then discovered that Christmas trees were placed along the German trenches . Slowly, the columns of German soldiers left their trenches and advanced until the medium of the No man' S Land , where they invited the British to come to join them. The two camps met in the middle of a landscape devastated by the shells, exchanged gifts, discussed and played Football.

This kind of truce was current where the British and German troops faced, and fraternization still continued with places during one week until the military authorities put at it a brake.

XXIe century

In France, the Trêve of the Confiseur S is the period between Christmas and the New Year's Day generally last at rest.

The expression comes from the Truce of God , confirmed in France by the king Saint Louis towards 1245: the Catholic church ordered that the warlike combat are stopped for the period of the Advent with Christmas.

It is especially used to describe the truce Hiver nale in Politique (traditionally followed by the House of Commons and the Sénat since 1875), with the Football (primarily for weather reasons) and in times of Guerre.

This Expression is built thus because this wintry time of the Fête S is traditionally favourable with the pleasures of the table and more particularly with the Confiserie S.

Random links: