In France, Candlemas (French: La Chandeleur) is celebrated with crêpes, which must be eaten only after eight p.m. If the cook can flip a crêpe while holding a coin in the other hand, the family is assured of prosperity throughout the coming year. The French though have a completely reversed view of the weather prospects. They say: "Quand la Chandeleur est claire, l’hiver est par derriere; Chandeleur couverte quarante jours de perte," a rhyme that means, more or less: "If February 2nd is clear, no more winter to fear; if the Chandeleur is overcast, forty days winter to last." But then again they also say: "Soleil de la Chandeleur, annonce hiver et malheur" which is "A sunny Candlemas will bring winter and misfortune". Other traditions include "Si point ne veut de blé charbonneux mange des crêpes à la Chandeleur" which is "if you do not at all wish the wheat to blacken eat crêpes at Candlemas", and "Celui qui la rapporte chez lui allumée. Pour sûr ne mourra pas dans l’année" which is "whoever arrives home (from church) with it (the candle) lit for sure will not die that year".

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