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How many working days in year 1979?

Here is the detail of the calculation:

Because 1979 is not a leap year, it has 365 days.

Let's remove 52 saturdays and 52 sundays. It remains 261 days.

Now, let's remove 10 public holidays that do not fall during a weekend and we obtain 251 working days in 1979.

Here is the list of these 10 public holidays:

1. Jour de l'An : Monday, 1 January, 1979
2. Lundi de Pâques : Monday, 16 April, 1979
3. Fête du Travail : Tuesday, 1 May, 1979
4. Jeudi de l'Ascension : Thursday, 24 May, 1979
5. Lundi de la Pentecôte : Monday, 4 June, 1979
6. Jour de la fête Dieu : Thursday, 14 June, 1979
7. Fête de l'Assomption : Wednesday, 15 August, 1979
8. Fête de la Toussaint : Thursday, 1 November, 1979
9. Fête Nationale : Monday, 19 November, 1979
10. Jour de Noël : Tuesday, 25 December, 1979

And here are the 2 public holidays falling on a weekend:

1. Jour de la Sainte Dévote : Saturday, 27 January, 1979
2. Fête de l'Immaculée Conception : Saturday, 8 December, 1979