Publisher's Synopsis
The Halloween party has never really succeeded in breaking through in France. One of the possible reasons for such a failure is our legendary reluctance to commodify traditions. Yet even though Christmas has not escaped this wave, pouring out its vomiting stream of flashy storefronts, big red obese plastic beards and artificial snow bombs every year, we continue to greet its arrival. More surely perhaps, France remains suspicious of Anglo-Saxon imports. It may have been claimed that Halloween was a very old pagan holiday, of which All Saints' Day was only a Christian adaptation, this side of the Atlantic was not sensitive to its charms. The craze lasted only a while. The following year, we moved on, and deplore our previous mercantile errors. Sad death for Halloween.
