Easter Eggs

We started the session with a talk by Michelle about Easter Eggs. She explained the origin of Easter Eggs and the ways of celebrating Easter in different countries around the

CEUFS DE PAQUES – EASTER EGGS

The Easter eggis a Christian symbol,especially decorated for this day.

It was traditionally a hen’s egg,cooked,hard·boiled and colourful. Nowadaysit isinsugar and chocolate.

This is a present to children onthe morning of Easter day.

InEngland,Switzerland,USA and Germany the Easter symbol is a rabbit or a hare.

Itis a very old tradition,decorated ostrich eggs have beenfoundin South Africa dating from sixty

thousand years ago.

Eggs were painted with geometric patterns,animals and vegetables inAncient Egypt.

Inthe English religionpainted eggs were offered to the goddess Eostrewhich then gave the English

name Easter.

The egg symbolises Christ’s resurrectionand his exit from the tomb,like the little chick coming out of his egg.

Inoldentimes there was a traditionthat giving painted eggs to somebody broughtgoodluck and announced the Spring.

Egg painting began on the Thursday before Easter. They were painted red,laid the same day and kept like alucky charm.

During lent we didn’t eat eggs,they were kept and decorated as an offering on Easter day.

The decorating technique was to draw a pattern with a pencil. Wax is put onwhere you don’t want colour then thecolouris applied by dippingthe eggina bath oflight colour. Itis left to dry before putting onmore wax and dippingin a second baThis process is repeated drying,wax,colours.

Afterwards we heat up the egg inan ovenor over the flame of a candle to melt the wax and now the colours appear.

Louis XV’s daughter received painted eggs as a present from Watteau.

Nicolas IIgave his wife and mother eggs from Fabergein gold and precious stones.

In XVIII,fresh eggswere emptied and filledwith liquid chocolate,a mixture of sugar, cocoa butter and chocolate powder.

At the end of the second e·mpire iron moulds were being used.

InFrance eggs are brought by the bells during the night of Saturday and Sunday. In Germany and Austr a the hare brings the eggs.

The rabbitis very prolific in Spring,thisis a symbolof fertility.

InBavaria the hare is replaced with the cock. In Turkeyit is a fox. InHanover, a cuckoo,in Tyrola henand inWestphalia a fox.

In the catholic churches the bells stopringing at the mass onThursday for the death of Christ. The bells ring again at the end of Easter evening on the Saturday.

They come back with chocolate eggs which they putin the garden.

Today inFrance,villages organise Easter egg hunts during the Easter weekendina smallspace like a wood.

OEUFS DE PAQUES – EASTER EGGS

L’oeuf de Poques est un symbole chretien The Easter egg is a Christian symbol

specialement decore pour cette fete. especially decorated for this day

Traditionnellement, ii s’agit d’un oeuf de poule it is a traditional hen’s egg

cuit, dur et colore, aujourd’ hui, ii est en sucre ou en chocolat

cooked, hard-bolled and colourful, nowadays, it-W’4s in sugar and chocolate

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c’ est un cadeau qui est offert aux enfants le matin du dimanche de Poques this is a present to children in the morning of Easter ‘day

En Grande-Bretagne, en Suisse, aux Etats-unis, en Allemagne In England, in Switzerland, USA , in Germany

le symbole de Poques est un lapin ou un lievre This Easter symbol is a rabbit or a hare

c ‘est une coutume tres ancienne, iI a ete retrouve des oeufs d’ autruche It was a very old tradition, decorate eggs of ostrich are found

decores datant de 60 000 ans en Afrique Australe in South of Africa dating from sixty thousand years

des oeufs peints avec des motifs geometriques, animaliers ou vegetaux Eggs are painted with geometric pattern,animals, vegetables

en Egypte antique in the antic Egypte

dons la religion anglo-saxone, on offrait des oeufs peints a la in the english religion, painting eggs are offered to the

Deesse Eostre qui a donne son nom a Poques ( Easter) en anglais goddess Eostre to give the english name : Easter

L’oeuf symbolise la resurrection du Christ et sa sortie du tombeau The egg symbolyze the Christ resurrection and his exit of the tomb

comme le poussin sort de I’oeuf like te little chick go out his egg

la tradition de s’offrir des oeufs decores date de I’Antiquite In Antiquity, there is the tradition to treat painting eggs

en guise de porte-bonheur et de renouveau du printemps to bring somebody good luck and announce the spring

la decoration de l’oeuf commenait le Jeudi Saint, ii etait peint rouge vif The egg’s decoration began at Saint’s Thursday, it was paint in bright

pondu le jour meme et conserve comme porte-bonheur red, laying the same day and preserve like lucky charm

on ne devait pas manger d’oeufs pendant le Careme, on les conservait during the Careme, we did’ nt eat eggs, they are conserved

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et les decorait avant de les offrir a Poques. and decorated before offered on Easter’s day

La technique de decoration apres un trace au crayon associe la teinture After the pattern with a pencil the tecnical dye is the colour and the

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et la cire. on depose la cire sur les endroits que l’on ne veut pas colorer and the polish. The polish is puting down where we don’ t want colour

on trempe l’oeuf dons un premier bain de teinture claire, on laisse secher and we dip eggin a first bath of light die, we leave to dry

puis on recouvre de cire chaude, on trempe dons un deuxieme bain then we cove egg and polish, we dip a secund bath

et on recommence autant de fois qu’ ii y a de couleurs and we repeat the process drying, polish and colours

on chauffe ensuite l’oeuf (dans un four OU cl la flamme d’une bougie) after we heat up the egg in an oven or at a flame of a candle

pour faire fondre la cire et les couleurs apparaissent tomelt the polish and now the colours appeared

La fille de Louis XV a reu en cadeau des oeufs peints par Watteau

The LOU S XV’s daughter receive painting eggs in present by Watteau

Nicolas offrait a Poques a son epouse et a sa mere Nicolas gaveto his spouse and his mother

des oeufs de Faberge (en or et pierres precieuses) joailler tres renomme eggs of Faberge in gold and precious stones

au XVIeme, les oeufs frais sont vides pour les remplir de chocolat in XVI ,fresh eggs are emptied to put in liquid chocolate

liquide puis d’une pate molle faite de sucre, beurre de cacao et chocolat and mixture with sugar, cacao butter and chocolate powder

en poudre. A la fin du Second Empire, on utilise des moules en fer blanc at th end of the secund empire, it usemould in wight iron

LA CHASSE AUX OEUFS THE HUNTING OF EGGS

En France, les oeufs en chocolat sont apportes par les cloches dans In France, eggs in chocolat are bringing with bells

la nuit du samedi au dimanche

in the night of saturday to sunday

En Allemagne et en Autriche, les oeufs sont apportes par le lievre in G,ermany in Austria, with hare

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En Baviere, le lievre est remplace par le coq

in Baviere, hase is replace with a cock

En Thuringe, c’est un renard, dons la region de Hanovre c’est un coucou in Thuringe, it was a fox in Hanovre a cuckoo

Au Thyrol, c’est la poule, en Westphal ie, c’est le renard in the Thyrol,this is a hen, in Wesphalie a f ox

chez les catholiques, les cloches cessent de sonner a la messe in the catholics, bells stop to ring at the mass of

du Jeudi Saint en signe de deuil pour la mort du Christ Soint ‘s Thursday for the death of Christ

Elles resonnent a la fin de la veillee de Poques le samedi soir

the bells are ringing at the end of the Easter’s evening on saturday

Elles reviennent chargees d’ oeufs en chocolat qu’ elles deversent dons les they come back with chocolate’s eggs they put there in the garden

jardins. Aujourd’hui, des communes organisent des chasses aux oeufs Now, villages organize hunting’s eggs J.vJ

le week-end de Poques dons un espace limite comme un bois. on the Easter week-end in a space like wood.