프랑스에게 바캉스란 단순 여름 휴가가 아니라, 종교에 가깝다고 한다.
뭐, 여기까지는 모두의 상식일텐데,
바캉스라는 종교에는 2개의 종파가 있다는 걸 알고 계시는 분은 별루 없으실 것 같다.
8월 1일자 WSJ에는 이 두 종파의 충돌에 대해서 다루고 있다.
이 두 종파는 과연 무엇일까?
계곡파 vs 해수욕파?
알프스파 vs 지중해파?
정답은
'aoûtiens' vs' juillettistes' 이 두개의 파이다.
불어이긴 하지만, 신문 기사를 읽어보니 대략 August파 vs July파 로 요약된다.
아스팔트가 늘어붙어 꼼짝 달싹 못하게 되는 8월이 오기전에 7월에 휴가를 보내자는 juillettistes와
무더위가 기승을 부리는 8월에 노는게 제맛이라는 aoûtiens
프랑스는 본격적 바캉스 시즌이 오기전에 설문조사를 하는가보다
우리도 명절 전에 물어보지 않는가? 국도로 가실래요? 고속도로로 가실래요? 물어보듯이
7월과 8월의 선호도 비율을 보니 막상막하이다.
문제는 이 둘 간의 접합점이다.
즉, 휴가 떠나는 사람과 돌아오는 사람들의 인파 모두가 길바닥과 철도에 풀리는 날.
그날이 올해는 8월 2일(금), 8월 3일(토)이 되겠다.
아래 지도를 근거로, 8월 3일 교통상황은 Black (the most dire level) 이 예상된다.
(구체적으론, 지중해나 알프스로의 여행을 떠나는 출발자들, 즉 aoûtiens이 곤란을 더 겪게 됨)
이 날은 교통체증이 절정에 달할 것으로 예상된다.
그래서 이런 현상을 부르는 용어도 생겨났다.
이름하여 chassé-croisé
무슨 뜻인지 몰라서 나도 네이버 사전에 쳐넣어봤다.
(네이버 사전의 정확함은 빅보카에서도 증명되었기에..)
결과는
(체육학용어) <댄스> 샤세 크르와제
chassé [명사] 샤세(한 발을 다른 발 자리로 미끄러지듯이 옮기며 추는 춤)
뭐라는 게냐?
유튜브로 찾아보니,
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qqHHF6GTCU0
영상의 3분 3초쯤 보게 되면,
가다 서다, 가다 서다 하는 장면이 있는데,
혹, 여기에서 가져온 말인가? 하는 추측을 하게 된다.
기사 본문에는
왜 7월파와 8월파가 나뉘었는지
어떤 계층의 사람들이 산으로 가는지, 바다로 가는지와 같은
사회계층적 분석 내용이 실려있고,
그리고 바캉스의 기원과 관련된
프랑스의 휴가체계, 노동시간 등에 관한 얘기가 나오지만
그런 얘기는 관심있으신 분만 WSJ 해당 기사를 검색하시리라 사료되므로
오늘 얘기는 여기서 끝~!!
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1936년에 바캉스 법이 제정되면서 바캉스 문화가 본격적으로 등장
바캉스법 통과된 초기에는 두 부류가 나타났으나, 요새는 점점 구분이 모호해짐
1. 공장들은 8월에 문을 닫기에 노동계층은 8월에 휴가를
2. 제조업에 얽매이지 않는 전문직, 부유층은 7월을 선호
What Happens When All of France Takes Vacation? 438 Miles of Traffic
For a short time each summer, French travelers returning from holiday collide with those heading out, vs. snarling highways and jamming train stations in an annual ritual called the chassé-croisé. The ‘ juillettistes’ vs. ‘aoûtiens’.
www.wsj.com
WHAT HAPPENS WHEN ALL OF FRANCE TAKES VACATION? 438 MILES OF TRAFFIC
PARIS—In France, where long summer vacations are a religion, there
are two sects.
The traditionalists, known as _aoûtiens_, who take off August. And the _juillettistes, _who leave town in July before the country has ground to a sticky halt.
For a short time each summer, they collide. The _juillettistes _are returning home and the _aoûtiens _are hitting the road, snarling highways and jamming train stations in an annual ritual called the _chassé_-_croisé_, named for a dance step in which partners cross in front of each other.
Last year, the dance generated 438 miles of traffic jams at its peak, according to government figures. This year, officials have raised the traffic rating for Saturday to “black”—the most dire level—for the entire country.
Charlotte Arnault, a retirement-home nurse, was at the Gare de Lyon station in Paris last weekend, waiting for a train to Cannes. Her family has given up on driving there after getting caught in four hours of traffic en route to the Riviera town. “It was awful,” the _aoûtienne _says.
French motorists in Godard’s film ‘Le Weekend.’ Few countries take their vacations more seriously than France, and few have more of it. Employees have a legal minimum of five weeks a year, plus as many as 11 national holidays, and many office workers get an extra week or two off as compensation for working more than the country’s legal maximum of 35 hours a week.
“Vacation in France,” said Jean Viard, a sociologist at Paris’s Sciences Po university, “has taken the place of the great religious rites.”
This rite dates back to 1936. Mass strikes and factory occupations propelled a left-wing coalition into power, and they promptly established a right to paid vacation. “Victory Over Misery!” blared the front page of Le Peuple, a union newspaper.
Factories began to close in August, spawning a generation of working-class vacationers who flocked to the shore. Richer people and professionals not tied to manufacturing often headed to the mountains or abroad earlier in the summer, says Pierre Périer, a sociologist at the University of Rennes, who generally prefers to take his vacation in July.
“I’m pretty much in conformity with my social group,” Mr. Périer added.
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The class divisions have blurred over time, says Jean Pruvost, a lexicographer who has studied the origins of French vacation terms. But the distinction between _juillettistes _and _aoûtiens _is now as cemented in the French vocabulary as _chardonnay _and___ merlot._
___Juillettistes_ consider themselves free-spirited, preferring exotic destinations such as Bangkok. They return to work in early August, when most offices are deserted, which the August vacationers say allows the July crowd to slack off for an additional month.
The goal, says Richard Kruel, a mathematics student in Paris who is a _juillettiste_, is to vacation until “you’re a bit sick of it.”
And avoiding the crowds is a plus. Sylvie Siano, a nurse who claims to have never taken a vacation in August, says _juillettistes _are “just looking more for tranquility.”
But _aoûtiens _say they are more in tune with the rhythms of French life. David Achille, distribution director for sports newspaper L’Equipe, says working through the August doldrums is simply too eerie. “You call, no one answers. You send an email, no one answers,” Mr. Achille says. “The average Frenchman is, I think by nature, an _aoûtien_.”
Government statistics are on Mr. Achille’s side. In 2010, half of all salaried employees in France were on vacation each of the first three weeks of August, compared with a quarter in each of the last three weeks of July, according to national statistics agency Insee.
To track the vacation herds, the government created Bison Futé, or Clever Buffalo, a special agency that issues traffic warnings and tallies the miles of jams. It launched in 1976, after public outcry over the chassé-croisé of 1975 produced 372 miles of _bouchons, _or traffic jams, and led to 1.2 million hours lost sitting in traffic, according to one calculation.
Writing in Le Monde in 1976, journalist Robert Escarpit suggested “it would be more in keeping with the mentality of French drivers… to have them be directed by Stupid Sheep,’ given how they still often end up clogging the same roads anyway.
_Juillettistes _are beginning to trickle back into the office, tanned and well-rested, as their colleagues prepared to face the summer gridlock.
“When you come back in August, you still have the impression of being on vacation,” said Carole Ekizian, a documentary film production assistant who spent July lounging near Saint-Tropez, returning to work in Lyon as the rest of the city was packing up.
In Paris, throngs of _aoûtiens _were already flocking to train stations. At Gare de Lyon, where trains depart for southern France’s beaches and Mediterranean countryside, many people sat on suitcases. Toting surfboards, tennis gear and pets, they turned to red-jacketed attendants on hand to direct the crowd as staffers passed out orange drawstring bags with activities and snacks to keep children occupied.
Tom Lefèvre, an _aoûtien_, recalled a traffic jam from a few years ago, when his family’s Audi took three hours to drive 60 miles on the trip back to Paris. “We were completely stuck,” he said, “bickering for the whole journey.”
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