France is a country that has a strong culture of workers’ rights and while it’s not true that everyone in France works a 35 hour week and gets the whole of August off, as an employee you are entitled to quite a few days off.

French workers are actually<a target="_blank" href="https://www.thelocal.fr/20190717/french-workers-highly-productive-despite-short-working-hours-but-for-how-much-longer" …read more

Source:: https://www.thelocal.fr/20200106/these-are-the-days-off-work-you-are-entitled-to-in-france