Les Treize Desserts de Noël

The Thirteen Desserts of Christmas

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By Mireille Johnston

Published 1990

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Christmas, or Calena, in Nice is celebrated with a rich variety of rituals. It all starts on the fourth of December, when children place wheat and lentils in saucers and cover them with a little cotton wool so that they will sprout. The budding green is used for the Créche.

Displayed in the Créche are santons: little hand-painted clay figurines representing the most characteristic of Provençal villagers. There is the fish vendor with a large, flat basket of sardines on