In 2024, a leap year, several thousand French people will celebrate their birthday ‘for real’ this Thursday, February 29. A rarity since in 2020, 1,598 people were born on February 29, or only… 0.22% of births for the year.
“I love my date of birth because it is a source of questions,” smiles the architecture student in Seine-et-Marne, who will celebrate her twentieth birthday “forreal” this Thursday.