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How many working days in year 1996?

Here is the detail of the calculation:

Because 1996 is a leap year, it has 366 days.

Let's remove 52 saturdays and 52 sundays. It remains 262 days.

Now, let's remove 11 public holidays that do not fall during a weekend and we obtain 251 working days in 1996.

Here is the list of these 11 public holidays:

1. Jour de l'An : Monday, 1 January, 1996
2. Lundi de Pâques : Monday, 8 April, 1996
3. Fête du Travail : Wednesday, 1 May, 1996
4. Jeudi de l'Ascension : Thursday, 16 May, 1996
5. Lundi de la Pentecôte : Monday, 27 May, 1996
6. Jour de la fête Dieu : Thursday, 6 June, 1996
7. Fête de l'Assomption : Thursday, 15 August, 1996
8. Fête de la Toussaint : Friday, 1 November, 1996
9. Fête Nationale : Tuesday, 19 November, 1996
10. Fête de l'Immaculée Conception : Monday, 9 December, 1996
11. Jour de Noël : Wednesday, 25 December, 1996

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

1. Jour de la Sainte Dévote : Saturday, 27 January, 1996
2. Fête de l'Immaculée Conception : Sunday, 8 December, 1996