{"id":8175,"date":"2015-05-01T15:00:44","date_gmt":"2015-05-01T07:00:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lucie-guyard.com\/blog\/?p=8175"},"modified":"2015-05-01T13:58:00","modified_gmt":"2015-05-01T05:58:00","slug":"a-bouquet-of-lily-of-the-valley","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.lucie-guyard.com\/blog\/a-bouquet-of-lily-of-the-valley\/","title":{"rendered":"A bouquet of Lily-of-the-Valley"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-8176\" src=\"http:\/\/www.lucie-guyard.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/muguet-600-EN.jpg\" alt=\"muguet-600-EN\" width=\"600\" height=\"773\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.lucie-guyard.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/muguet-600-EN.jpg 600w, http:\/\/www.lucie-guyard.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/muguet-600-EN-233x300.jpg 233w, http:\/\/www.lucie-guyard.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/muguet-600-EN-480x618.jpg 480w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>In France, we have this very cute tradition : On the 1st of May, we give to those we love a little bouquet of Lily-of-the-Valley to wish them happiness and good luck in celebration of the arrival of spring.<br \/>\nIn Paris, everywhere in the streets, people are selling this lovely flower which smells very nice.<\/p>\n<p>Since LaPtiteLu is French and she really loves you, here is a big bouquet to wish you happiness and good luck!<\/p>\n<p>Do you know where this tradition comes from?<br \/>\nApparently it dates from the Renaissance in 1560 when Charles IX and his mother Catherine de Medicis were visiting \u00a0the French area \u00ab\u00a0Dr\u00f4me\u00a0\u00bb, the Chevalier Louis Girard Maisonforte offers to the king a little bouquet of Lyli-of-the-Valley from\u00a0his garden.<br \/>\nThe king was so pleased that he decided to offer a bouquet of Lily-of-the-Valley\u00a0to every ladies of his\u00a0court every\u00a0spring.<br \/>\nLouis Girard thank you! You had a great idea &#x1f609;\u00a0Of course, this is a legend and there are a lot of other stories about the origin\u00a0of this tradition but it is the one I like the most.<\/p>\n\n<!-- Facebook Like Button Vivacity Infotech BEGIN -->\n<div class=\"fb-like\" data-href=\"http:\/\/www.lucie-guyard.com\/blog\/a-bouquet-of-lily-of-the-valley\/\" data-layout=\"standard\" data-action=\"like\" data-show-faces=\"false\" data-size=\"small\" data-width=\"450\" data-share=\"\" ><\/div>\n<!-- Facebook Like Button Vivacity Infotech END -->\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; In France, we have this very cute tradition : On the 1st of May, we give to those we love a little bouquet of Lily-of-the-Valley to wish them happiness and good luck in celebration of the arrival of spring. In Paris, everywhere in the streets, people are selling this lovely flower which smells very&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":8172,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1730],"tags":[1901,1903,1905],"class_list":["post-8175","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-la-ptite-lu-en","tag-1st-of-may","tag-lily-of-the-valley","tag-tradition-en"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.lucie-guyard.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8175","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.lucie-guyard.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.lucie-guyard.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.lucie-guyard.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.lucie-guyard.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8175"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.lucie-guyard.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8175\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.lucie-guyard.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/8172"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.lucie-guyard.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8175"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.lucie-guyard.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8175"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.lucie-guyard.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8175"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}