Historically, the housing industry usually produces about 1.5 million homes peryear, but 2009 and 2010 saw the lowest annual production since the government began keeping records in 1959!
There are no nativity plays in France's strictly secular state schools, no carol-singers in the streets and almost no Christmas cards two per person on average, compared with 28 in Britain, and then usually as greetings for the new year.