Mamans Francaises: Paques?

[NotQuiteCockney]

Ok, I'm not going to try to write this in my tortured French. But I wanted to know, we are going to spend Easter in France. Is there really no Easter bunny there? It's a bell? Really?

I'm basing my information on David Sedaris here, so if I'm completely wrong, blame him!

Of course we have easter bunnies !!

and bells, eggs, chicks...
Lucky you, enjoy shop windows, you can get an indigestion just by looking at them !

Oh, god, the chocolate at Easter time there. Well, anytime really . . .

:)

But the eggs are delivered by a bell, not a bunny?

It doesn't really sound that weird, I guess, no weirder than the whole bunny delivering eggs thing ... but still ... a bell? That goes to Rome?

For Christians it used to be forbidden to eat eggs during lent. As sa consequence they ended up with too many of them for consumption and started decorating them and giving them away to each other as a present at Easter. That started in the Middle Ages.
In Catholic countries (like France), eggs are brought from Rome by bells (the bells set off to Rome on Holy Thursday to be blessed by the Pope and come back on Easter day to drop them in gardens for kids to find them). In Germanic countries (England) they're brought over by bunnies.
That's why chocolate bells often have wings or stand on a winged carriage.