A quick post for this December 1st, to start the countdown to Christmas with you—one of my favorite times of the year—and to finish 2017 in style and with plenty of treats…

Here is a little selection of advent calendars, gathered here and there to make you want to open a little window with a lovely gift every day until December 24th. I, for one, definitely want to!

By the way, if you follow me on social media, you must have seen here or here that I am organizing a special Mademoiselle Bon Plan Advent Calendar throughout the month of December, with nice prizes to be won almost every day, either on my social media (Facebook, Twitter, or Instagram) or on the blog. You’ll need to search every day for where the prize is hidden to enter the giveaway. And actually, it starts today with a little gourmet surprise at the end of this article…

A bit of history: The Advent calendar is a German tradition, created to help children wait for Christmas. Originally, they were given a pious image each morning, captioned with a Bible verse or an invitation to perform a good deed. Over time, treats and other sweets gradually replaced the images.

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A non-exhaustive selection of Advent calendars

The Monbana Advent Calendar

A gourmet and humorous advent calendar with 24 squares of dark and milk chocolate, wrapped with “tip” quotes to make sure you don’t forget anything on your holiday checklist.

Price: 8.90 €

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The Rabbids After-Advent Calendar

This reverse calendar offers 28 fancy marshmallows to discover in numbered boxes from December 25th to 33rd to make Christmas last a little longer!

Price: 8.50 €

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The Comptoir de Mathilde Advent Calendar

Behind each door of this calendar, a gourmet surprise to discover and enjoy (spread, hot chocolate spoon, truffle, marshmallow, Christmas chocolate shapes…)

Price: 29.90 €

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The house-shaped Kinder Advent Calendar

The charity deal: for every 3 Kinder Advent calendars purchased = 3 Kinder products donated to children helped by the Secours populaire français (until December 3rd)

And on top of that, each participant will get a discount of up to 20 € on the purchase of their Christmas tree (offer limited to the first 200,000 participants)

Price: 9.90 €

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The Comtesse du Barry Advent Calendar

It’s the first time that the Comtesse du Barry brand has offered an Advent calendar!

The design of this calendar, in the shape of a chic origami, hides a sweet treat in each box (caramels, calissons, chocolates, fruit jellies, nougats…)

Price: 29.90 €

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The Révillon Advent Calendar

Obviously this calendar is filled with papillotes (8 varieties), how could it be otherwise… I will open the first box tomorrow at work…

Price: 8.99 €

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The Michel Cluizel Advent Calendar

It is also the first time that Michel Cluizel offers his own advent calendar, with chocolates to discover every day (milk chocolate, ganache, praline, dark chocolate… And to end the month of December in style, the window for the 24th houses a big praline bite (which I can’t wait to devour !!!!)

Calendar available in the “Petite Manufacture Cluizel” shops in Paris, Neuilly, and Bucharest, as well as in the Cluizel counters in Nantes, Strasbourg, and Thionville.

Price: 38.40 €

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GIVEAWAY:

To start this month of December well and help you wait until Christmas, the Maison Michel Cluizel is teaming up with the blog to give one of you a Michel Cluizel Advent Calendar!

The prize: a Michel Cluizel Advent Calendar (value 38.40 €)

To participate, simply leave a comment below this article telling me if you have a little Advent Calendar ritual.

A random draw among the answers to this question will determine the winner of the prize! Good luck to everyone, and all that’s left for me to do is wish you all a very happy December!

Rules:

– Competition limited to Metropolitan France

– + 1 chance if you are a fan of the blog’s Facebook page; + 1 chance if you follow the blog’s Twitter page; + 1 chance if you follow the blog’s Hellocoton page + 1 chance if you follow the blog’s Instagram page + 1 chance for each share of the article (don’t forget to leave your usernames in your comment if you want to benefit from extra chance(s))

– 1 entry per IP address

– competition start date Thursday, November 30, 2017 – entry deadline Sunday, December 03, 2017 at 8pm and result the next day on the blog in an update to this article.

Update of November 27, 2017:

Following the random draw, I am happy to announce that the lucky winner of the Michel Cluizel advent calendar (whose chocolates are to die for!) is Kayssies.

Congratulations, I will contact you shortly by email. Thank you all for your many entries, and don’t hesitate to enter the other giveaways for my advent calendar on the blog and the blog’s social networks!

Photo credits: Nicolas Diolez