{"id":2489,"date":"2018-01-01T18:20:04","date_gmt":"2018-01-01T18:20:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/french.kwiziq.com\/blog\/?p=2489"},"modified":"2019-05-16T14:55:45","modified_gmt":"2019-05-16T13:55:45","slug":"public-holidays-france","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/french.kwiziq.com\/blog\/public-holidays-france\/","title":{"rendered":"Public holidays in France"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Everyone loves a good public holiday, <em>n&#8217;est-ce pas?<\/em> France has 11 of them, but they&#8217;re not always paid days off from work. 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