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EVERY MAY 1, French teenagers line the Paris streets selling freshly picked blooms of Lily of the Valley. The flower, France’s national symbol of spring and Labor Day (both celebrated that day) is shared among friends and relations as a token of luck. “My mother has been planting lily of the valley for 40 years,” said Parisian jewelry designer Aurélie Bidermann of the garden at her family’s country house. “I grew up with this tradition.” Her recent lily of the valley-themed collection was created while she was pregnant with her…