{"product_id":"6-inventivally-romantic-early-c20th-french-postcards-copy","title":"Series of 3 Bizarre Poisson d'Avril Fish Postcards","description":"\u003cdiv style=\"text-align: center;\"\u003e\n\u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003e\n\u003cspan class=\"iNqyIf\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003eIn \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003cspan class=\"\"\u003eFrance\u003c!--TgQPHd|||[]--\u003e\u003c!--TgQPHd|||[false,\u0026quot;\u0026quot;,false,{\u0026quot;u\u0026quot;:0}]--\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c!--TgQPHd|||[]--\u003e\u003c!--TgQPHd|||[]--\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e, April 1st is celebrated  as Poisson d'Avril \u003c\/span\u003e(April Fish) the French equivalent of April Fools' Day ,when people play jokes on eachother, usually with a fishy theme.\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv style=\"text-align: center;\"\u003e\n\u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003eWhy fish remains unclear, but it might have started in 1564, when King Charles IX moved the start of the French New Year from April 1st to January 1st. People who stubbornly\u003cbr\u003e kept celebrating the new year at the beginning of April were mocked with odd gifts, ..often involving fish...because, maybe, the 1st April falls during Lent when eating fish \u003cbr\u003ewas restricted. Who knows !\u003cbr\u003eAnyway, here is a series of 3 French postcards from 1909 celebrating the 1st April \u003cbr\u003ewith FISH\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv style=\"text-align: center;\"\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003ccenter\u003e\u003c\/center\u003e\u003c!--VGPVRGOVMGOVMGAVRGKVEGRVSND--\u003e","brand":null,"offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":57299640287610,"sku":null,"price":4.5,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0881\/1876\/files\/IMG_4763_781cfe9d-fef2-47c5-9ebb-b400d70c02a9.jpg?v=1790190394","url":"https:\/\/theswagmansdaughter.com\/products\/6-inventivally-romantic-early-c20th-french-postcards-copy","provider":"The Swagmans Daughter","version":"1.0","type":"link"}