La veille de ...

La veille au soir means the previous evening.

Does 'La veille de Nöel' means Christmas Eve?
I don't find any logic here.

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Permalink Reply by Frank on November 13, 2009 at 9:09pm

Yes. Or (more common) Le réveillon (de Noël).

Permalink Reply by Neil Coffey on November 15, 2009 at 4:30pm

P.S. The logic is that "la veille" means "the day before".

Permalink Reply by Frank on November 15, 2009 at 4:38pm

Or when you put a device into sleep mode :)

Permalink Reply by Crack1 on November 15, 2009 at 7:34pm

Neil wrote the following:

The logic is that "la veille" means "the day before":

So it should be 'the day before the Christmas Eve' !

Permalink Reply by Frank on November 15, 2009 at 8:45pm

Noël is Xmas, i.e. December 25th.

Thus, la veille de Noël is December 24th.

Permalink Reply by Crack1 on November 15, 2009 at 9:18pm

Yes, Frank, I would agree with you.

I am not a Christian. So I am not so familiar with exact dates.