Jour de Fete

Name: Jour de Fete
Start: 2027-08-14
End: 2027-08-15
Location: Historic Downtown Ste. Genevieve

Ste. Genevieve, MO · Arts & Culture

When: August 14–15, 2027
Where: Historic Downtown Ste. Genevieve · Ste. Genevieve · MO
Cost: Not confirmed
Status: Approximate: based on past editions, not announced yet

Historic downtown Ste. Genevieve fills with more than 200 arts and crafts booths, live entertainment, and a car show each August, in one of Missouri's oldest French colonial towns. Jour de Fete marked its 58th year in 2026 and is fixed to the second full weekend of August.

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Jour de Fetesame spot
Historic downtown Ste.
Ste. Genevieve, the French town older than the state0.2 mi
Founded by French colonists out of the Illinois Country decades before Missouri existed, and the reason the state has any French colonial architecture left at all.
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