La Chandeleur, or Candlemas day, is a traditional French holiday celebrated on February 2nd each year. It’s customary for families to gather together to eat crepes, and if the cook can successfully flip a crepe with one hand while holding a coin in their dominant hand the family will have a prosperous year. Another common notion is that a triumphant flip will predict a early end to winter.

Like all traditional holidays, La Chandeleur comes with folk proverbs:

Á la Chandeleur, l’hiver cesse ou reprend vigeur. On Candelmas, winter ends or strengthens.

Soleil de la Chandeleur, annonce hiver et Malheur. A sunny Candelmas brings winter and misfortune.

Which ever way the flip goes, I’d love to be spending this Chandeleur at my favorite Paris creperie, the Breizh Café on rue Vielle Temple in the Marais.