Pentecost Festival Car Boot Sale

Pentecost Festival Car Boot Sale in Janville-en-Beauce

Every year at Pentecost, Janville-en-Beauce livens up its town with a car boot sale organized for the festivities of the long Pentecost weekend. Individuals and occasional sellers set up in the streets of this cereal-producing town for a friendly day of selling among neighbors, in the tradition of village festivals that mark the return of spring in Beauce.

Janville-en-Beauce, at the heart of the breadbasket

Janville-en-Beauce is a commune of about 3,000 inhabitants located in the heart of Beauce, about thirty kilometers northeast of Chartres. A small traditional market town in the great cereal plain, it retains a remarkable Gothic church — Saint-Nicolas — and a town center with character. Beauce, sometimes called the breadbasket of France, offers here its characteristic landscape of wide open horizons, endless cereal fields, and immense skies.

The commune took the name Janville-en-Beauce to assert its territorial identity in this plain on the outskirts of Île-de-France. It is easily accessible from Chartres via the N10, and from Orléans via the D2020.

Pentecost, a highlight of the associative calendar

The Pentecost weekend is traditionally a prime time for popular events throughout rural France. In Janville-en-Beauce, Pentecost festivities are a highlight of local life, and the car boot sale is one of its components. This type of event, anchored in the liturgical and popular calendar, testifies to the vitality of local associations and the attachment of the inhabitants to their traditions.

In 2026: Pentecost Weekend

The Pentecost Festival Car Boot Sale of Janville-en-Beauce will be held on Pentecost weekend 2026, i.e., May 23 and 24, 2026. For registration details and available spots, please contact the Janville-en-Beauce town hall or local organizers.