Somethings are so impressive or so unusual that there has to be a way of celebrating it - in french they "ça se fête" or "fêtons ça"

Friday was another bank holiday where the whole of France fait la fête.

Curiosity got the better of me this morning so i asked someone what yesterday's lie-in was all about

Was it something to do with the revolution ?

Nahhhhh

Was it for the liberation ?

Nahhhhh

Nothing of the kind

It's all in memory of the last apparition of the now extinct and much mourned ... heuuu ... virgin

Yup

The last vigin was seen in Lourdes in 1848

But that's not all

To think that when she became an ex-virgin, on the 8th of december, she gave birth on the 25th- that's a 17 day gestation period !!!!

Marie ('cos) that was her name, beats the rat (25 days gestation), the mouse (at 20 days), she just sneaks in ahead of the pigeon (18 days) but is roundly trounced by
...
The rabbit who only needs 12 days