France Edition
World Public Bench Day leads today's complete edition for France.
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A day for the humble places where strangers rest, elders talk, children wait, and towns quietly reveal themselves.
Every French child returns to school on the same day, with a cartable that weighs as much as they do and a supply list that requires three shops to fulfill. The photo at the school gate is mandatory, the tears are optional but common, and the gouter that follows is the first of roughly 180 gouters that will carry that child through the year.
You encounter harp seals, Atlantic puffins, and northern gannets as the most iconic wildlife native to Saint Pierre and Miquelon. You commonly see dogs and cats kept as pets in these islands, with some residents also maintaining fish in home aquariums. ACADA celebrates the world's pets, and helps assure better care.