Abstract: (On the transfer into French of Romanian culture-specific items designating proper names of holidays) Culture-specific items are defined as units carrying cultural information whose understanding depends on the extralinguistic or situational context. Culture-specific items refer to cultural elements present in material culture (clothes, currencies, units of measurement and time, etc.) and in spiritual culture (holidays, traditions, customs, beliefs, etc.) and reflect the cultural richness of a people. In the literature, the concept is studied in relation to the notion of culture understood as a set of significant practices shared by the members of a linguistic and cultural community. Our paper highlights the techniques of cultural transfer operated during the translation into French of Romanian culture-specific items designating proper names of holidays. The corpus is made up of holiday names extracted from Romanian and French sites that evoke the traditions that take place on the occasion of the main Romanian holidays. The results of the research present two situations of cultural transfer: assimilation of French gender and assimilation of French number. Most of the examples indicate the presence of foreign elements in the target culture in order to facilitate the understanding of Romanian culture-specific items by French-speaking tourists who visit our country during the holidays.