Chocolate bunnies, bells and chickens... This joyful mixture delights our taste buds every year. The tradition goes back. Louis XVI insisted that we bring him the largest egg in the kingdom. We have actually been giving ourselves eggs since the Middle Ages! In a spirit of penitence, Christians did not eat eggs during Lent...but the chickens continued to lay eggs! And the eggs were piling up. It is said that on Easter Sunday, the Sun King blessed eggs covered with gold and offered them to his courtiers and servants.
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Some Easter traditions have a Christian origin, others have taken up secular symbols. Do you know which goddess the English word “
Easter
”
comes from
? What do you know about the symbolism of the lamb that we eat on Easter Day? Since when is Easter Monday a public holiday? This short test will check if you are unbeatable on religious and cultural traditions.