The book, compiled by the St. Petersburg French teacher Elizaveta Nikolaevna Korsakova, includes fairy tales, Christmas stories, poems, songs, as well as entertaining tasks for memorizing the "Christmas" vocabulary. The author talks about the emergence of the tradition of celebrating Christmas in France, about the symbols and attributes of this holiday, about what is customary to serve on the festive Christmas table and how to decorate the house with your own hands for the holiday.