I learned "Poisson d'Avril" in French class too, but I don't know any more about it. I suspect the whole "April Fool" thing is much older than the founding of America, though.
Kate Bunting Librarian and 17th century reenactor >>> [EMAIL PROTECTED] 16/01/2006 19:12 >>> Sylvia Rognstad wrote: >>> If you mean April Fools' Day, Robin, we do have that in Europe too! > > > I learned that when I was six years old and my mother took me and my > sister to Europe for 3 months. On April 1, I found that people would > pin paper fish to others' backs without them knowing it. I learned this in French class as "Poisson d'Avril." I don't know if other than the French do the fish thing -- but as Fozzie Bear often said "one man's fish is another man's poisson." -- Cynthia Virtue and/or Cynthia du Pre Argent _______________________________________________ h-costume mailing list [email protected] http://mail.indra.com/mailman/listinfo/h-costume
