Would it be better to go to Paris, France (for study abroad) in the fall or spring?

weather and holiday-wise (by holiday I mean I want to experience as many French holidays/festivals as possible)? Im either going to go for Fall semester (September- December) or Spring semester (January to May).Thanks|||If you go September to December, you would only have Christmas as a holiday/festival. In France there is no Thanksgiving day, and Halloween, which has been imported from the USA in recent years, is not a festival at all and only a treat for some small kids. Harvest festivals are held locally in some places at the end of the grape picking , but these are purely local and not celebrated in the very large towns like Paris. The first of November is a rather gloomy statutory day off work when you go to put flowers on the graves of the deceased, but is not given to revels of any kind. If you arrrive in January you will have missed the January the first (Nouvel an) celebrations which are usually big, but Paris, for instance, has not had its usual fireworks for the last two years, as a measure of economy. There are celebrations and a festival of flowers during the Carnival season in Nice. People still make pancakes on Pancake day, the day before Lent, but there are no festivals. Likewise some people celebrate the 6th January ( Epiphany) by buying a special cake called ;galette des rois,; and near the Belgian and German frontiers there is a celebration of the 6th December for small kids (St Nicolas). Military parades are held everywhere on the 11th November, and are big in Paris, to commemorate the end of WW1, but they are not exactly "fun". Easter is celebrated over two days, Sunday and Monday.You have to bear in mind that France has a moderate to cold climate at that time of the year. Most festivals take place in the late Spring and during the Summer, the main event being National day on the 14th of July, when people dance in the streets and there are awesome fireworks everywhere. Weather wise the Fall semester is kinder at least till the end of October. Spring semester till Easter is cold and wet and May is precisely the time when things start to warm up. April in Paris is pretty as flowers start to bloom , but it is still cold and showery.Here is the list of public holidays in France: January 1 New Years Day April 5 Easter Monday May 1 Labour Day May 8 V-E Day May 13 Ascension Day May 24 Whitmonday July 14 Bastille Day August 15 Assumption Day November 1 All Saints Day November 11 Armistice Day December 25 Christmas Day|||I would say Fall semester, that;s when everybody comes back from holiday and groups are being made. By Spring you arrive in already settled classes and it is more difficult to make friends. As for holidays, we don;t do celebrations like you do. Our real ones are Christmas and 14th July.