FRENCH REVOLUTIONARY CALENDAR

the official calendar of France, Nov. 24, 1793–Dec. 31, 1805. Its introduction was decreed by the Convention on Oct. 5, 1793, but it was computed from Sept. 22, 1792, the autumnal equinox and the day after the proclamation of the republic. Supposedly philosophical and mathematical in its basis, it was divided into 12 months of 30 days (their names were invented by Fabre d'Églantine): Vendémiaire (vintage month); Brumaire (fog); Frimaire (sleet); Nivôse (snow); Pluviôse (rain); Ventôse (wind); Germinal (seed); Floréal (blossom); Prairial (pasture); Messidor (harvest); Thermidor (heat); Fructidor (fruit). The remaining five days, called sans-culottides, were feast days; they were named for Virtue, Genius, Labor, Reason, and Rewards, respectively. In leap years (the years III, VII, and XI) the extra day, the last of the year, was Revolution Day. The first day of the year (1 Vendémiaire) of year I, II, III, V, VI, and VII fell on Sept. 22 of the corresponding year a.d.; in the years IV, VIII, IX, X, XI, XIII, and XIV, it fell on Sept. 23; in the year XII, it fell on Sept. 24. There was no week; each month was divided into three decades of ten days each, with every 10th day (décadi) a day of rest. For the outstanding events known by the names of the revolutionary months in which they occurred, see Vendémiaire; Brumaire; Thermidor; Fructidor.

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books on: French Revolutionary Calendar  - 385 results

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Mapping Time: The Calendar and Its History
Book by E. G. Richards; Oxford University Press, 1999
Subjects: Calendar--History, Calendars--History
...forms of the French Revolutionary and Bahi7i...lunisolar calendars: these attempt...the Jewish calendar and the Christian...Christian calendar, 29 February...the French Revolutionary calendar, as in several other calendars, the extra...year. The French called theirs...
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Terror and Its Discontents: Suspect Words in Revolutionary France
Book by Caroline Weber; University of Minnesota Press, 2003
Subjects: France--History--Reign Of Terror, 1793-1794, France--History--Revolution, 1789-1799--Language, French Language--18th Century--Political Aspects--France, Revolutionaries--France--Language
...of the foreigner in revolutionary discourse, see Sophie...to foreign as well as French people, which later...the revolutionary calendar also creates an originary...Lay, eds., Yale French Studies ioi: Fragments...Family Romance of the French Revolu- tion (Berkeley...
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What Was Revolutionary about the French Revolution?
Book by Robert Darnton; Baylor University Press, 1990
Subjects: France--History--Revolution, 1789-1799--Errors, Inventions, Etc, France--History--Revolution, 1789-1799--Literature And The Revolution
...literature itself. The revolutionaries freed the press...ingredient of a new, revolutionary culture. Moliere...literary system, so the revolutionaries redid Moliere. They...midst of it, the French Revolution numbed...rational, natural, revolutionary calendar. To rewrite Moliere...
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Theatre, Opera, and Audiences in Revolutionary Paris: Analysis and Repertory
Book by Emmet Kennedy, Marie-Laurence Netter, James P. McGregor, Mark V. Olsen; Greenwood Press, 1996
Subjects: Drama, Opera--France--Paris--18th Century, Theater--France--Paris--Calendars, Theater--France--Paris--History--18th Century
...obtain from us a complete calendar of the French Revolutionary stage. Unfortunately, space...impossible to publish such a calendar in this work. A more troublesome...which had nothing to do with Revolutionary politics but had two lines...
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Leonard Bourdon: The Career of a Revolutionary, 1754-1807
Book by Michael J. Sydenham; Wilfrid Laurier University Press, 1999
Subjects: Bourdon, Leonard--1754-1807, France--History--Revolution, 1789-1799, Revolutionaries--France--Biography
...which arose directly from the development of the French Revolution 76 in the winter of 1793-94. Already...Convention in approving the introduction of the new revolutionary calendar, which has well been called the most anti-Christian...
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journal articles on: French Revolutionary Calendar  - 227 results

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The Politics of Time in Edmund Spenser's English Calendar
Journal article by Alison A. Chapman; Studies in English Literature, 1500-1900, Vol. 42, 2002
Subjects: Calendars--16th century, English literature, 1485-1603 (English Renaissance period)--Criticism, interpretation, etc., Spenser, Edmund--Criticism, interpretation, etc.
...adequately examined as a calendar, a highly politicized...specifically in the calendars ability to naturalize...experience the annual calendar as simply a neutral...modern age--French, Chinese, and...itself serve the new revolutionary ideology. Christianity...modern U.S. calendar, such as Martin...equinoxes. The calendars close implication...
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'Of Great Utility to the People of Cincinnati': The Centinel of the North-Western Territory Reports the French Revolution
Journal article by Jr. Lee Baker; International Social Science Review, Vol. 83, 2008
Subjects: Cincinnati, Ohio--History, French foreign relations--Political aspects, Territories and possessions--History
...Francophilia (as Kentuckys numerous French place names attest), and Maxwell...printed a concordance of the new French Revolutionary calendar with extensive directions on...intense interest by locals in French affairs. (46) By the late...
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"Le Regenerateur De la France": Literary Accounts of Napoleonic Regeneration 1799-1805
Journal article by Katia Sainson; Nineteenth-Century French Studies, Vol. 30, 2001
Subjects: Characters and characteristics in literature--Analysis, Cultural policy--Analysis, Emperors--Portrayals, French literature--19th century AD, Literary characters--Analysis, Monarchy--France, Napoleon I, Emperor of the French--Portrayals
...Napoleons presence on the French political stage (1799...the immediate post-Revolutionary era during which Napoleon...form of refashioning French territory by drawing...recasting time by creating a Revolutionary calendar, renewing civic feeling...
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"Ring out the Old, Ring in the New": The Symbolism of Bells in Nineteenth-Century French Poetry
Journal article by Aimee Boutin; Nineteenth-Century French Studies, 2002
Subjects: Bells (Acoustic)--Portrayals, Bells--Portrayals, French poetry--19th century AD, Poets--Criticism and interpretation
...Nineteenth-Century French Poetry. by Aimee Boutin...been dropped from the calendar, like the human beings...not does know that the revolutionary calendar altered the...nineteenth-century French poetry reflected the...Baudelaire. After the French Romantics invested the...
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The Political Apprenticeship of Bernard De Saintes: Richard Ballard Looks at How Events in the Opening Years of the French Revolution Took Shape in a Town Three Days' Journey from Paris
Journal article by Richard Ballard; History Review, 2006
Subjects: France--Political aspects, French Revolution, 1789--Casualties, Politicians--Political activity, Politicians--Training, Saintes, Bernard de--Political activity
...Opening Years of the French Revolution Took Shape...making full use of the revolutionary tribunal and the guillotine...been changed in the revolutionary Calendar to the Festival of the...Oxford History of the French Revolution (OUP, 1989...
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French Elections, 1789-1848
Magazine article by Malcolm Crook; History Today, Vol. 43, March 1993
Subjects: Elections--History, France--History, Representative government and representation--France
...system. Throughout the revolutionary and Napoleonic decades...echoed today in the French second-ballot system...V according to the Revolutionary Calendar) did more than 25...experimentation of the revolutionary period. Few bothered...
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Napoleon: A Classic Dictator? Laurent Joffrin Looks at the Paradoxes Surrounding a Man Who Has Fascinated the French for Two Hundred Years
Magazine article by Laurent Joffrin; History Today, Vol. 55, July 2005
Subjects: Consulate (France), 1799-1804--History, Dictators--Analysis, Dictators--Portrayals, Napoleon I, Emperor of France--Analysis, Napoleon I, Emperor of France--Beliefs, opinions and attitudes, Napoleon I, Emperor of France--Portrayals
...wished. After en during revolutionary convulsions far beyond...become a guide for the French nation, he had to be...which the potential of French society could truly...with the change of the calendar--in 1806 he proclaimed...Napoleon endures in the French spirit two centuries...
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`Do They Know It's Christmas?'
Magazine article by Anthony Bryer; History Today, Vol. 51, January 2001
Subjects: Byzantine antiquities--Analysis, Calendar--History, Ethiopia--History
...introduced in the Gregorian calendar (`New Style) by...accurate, but what calendar did they follow in...clings longest to Old Calendars. When Greeks left...republic adopted the New Calendar, leaving local Turks...shallower root. The French Revolutionary Era ended in AD 1806...
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Zero: The Debate over When the New Millennium Begins Is by Now a Familiar One
Magazine article by Dick Teresi; The Atlantic Monthly, Vol. 280, July 1997
Subjects: Calendars, Chronology, Numeration systems
...In that sense, Doggett wrote, "Calendars serve as a link between mankind and the cosmos." The calendar we use today was created by Julius...sixteenth century. The present Gregorian calendar still closely resembles Juliuss original effort. "In the sixteenth century calendars were very much at the front edge of...University. "You had to know how the calendar worked. There were major differences...
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Zero
Magazine article by Dick Teresi; The Atlantic Monthly, Vol. 280, July 1997
Subjects: Calendars--Public opinion, Millennium--Public opinion
...In that sense, Doggett wrote, "Calendars serve as a link between mankind and the cosmos." The calendar we use today was created by Julius...sixteenth century. The present Gregorian calendar still closely resembles Juliuss original effort. "In the sixteenth century calendars were very much at the front edge of...University. "You had to know how the calendar worked. There were major dif- ferences...
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Who Will We Fall in Love with This Year at Cannes? There May Be No Brits in Competition, but There's Plenty Else to Watch out for in the Most Important Festival of the Film Calendar
Newspaper article; The Evening Standard (London, England), May 10, 2007
Subjects: Leigh, Mike
...Important Festival of the Film Calendar. THE Festival must be a victory...is editor-in-chief at French Elle when he suffers a massive...dance by Vanessa Ferlito. The French love to make the Yanks look...about growing up in post-revolutionary Iran. Precocious youngster...
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Calendar; Top Picks
Newspaper article; The Washington Times, July 13, 2000
CALENDAR;TOP PICKS ART A Well-Watched War...Bastille Day revival of Up to His Ears, a French chase thriller of 1965 that reunited...W. Griffiths America, a saga of the Revolutionary War that co-starred Lionel Barrymore...
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Sample New Holiday Recipes at Whole Foods Adult Social Calendar Send Items to Nbrcalendar@dailyherald.Com
Newspaper article; Daily Herald (Arlington Heights, IL), November 16, 2010
...Holiday Recipes at Whole Foods Adult Social Calendar Send Items to Nbrcalendar@dailyherald...demonstration shows how to make Panettone French toast with apples and cranberries, a...the life of Artemisia Gentileschi, a revolutionary 17th century Italian painter. Register...
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A Baying Mob in a Tricky Situation; Chris Upton Looks at How a Travelling Magician Faced Down His Suspicious Persecutors in Revolutionary Times
Newspaper article; The Birmingham Post (England), May 26, 2011
...Suspicious Persecutors in Revolutionary Times. Byline: Chris Upton...circumstances. Over in France the French Revolution was raging, and...be founded on reason; the French revolutionaries too said that their new constitution...always a sensitive day in the calendar - a mob broke into the Prussian...
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A Futile Search for the Farce Version of History
Newspaper article by Richard Grenier; The Washington Times, January 16, 1998
Subjects: Dreyfus, Alfred, France
...novelist Emile Zolas attack on the French military for having falsely...original 18th Brumaire (in the French Revolutionary calendar) was the day Louis uncle Napoleon...and the possible extinction of French anti-Semitism. Another school...
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French Revolutionary Calendar
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
FRENCH REVOLUTIONARY CALENDAR the official calendar of France, Nov. 24, 1793 Dec. 31, 1805. Its introduction...For the outstanding events known by the names of the revolutionary months in which they occurred, see Vendemiaire ; Brumaire...
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Calendar
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
...dates were adjusted to the calendar. The Aztec calendar was very similar. Many...been made to devise new calendars, adjusting the months...most celebrated is the French Revolutionary calendar . Reckoning the Dates Assigned...
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French Revolution
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
...Marie Antoinette. A revolutionary calendar, with 10-day weeks...national state. The Revolutionary and Napoleonic Wars...France Reviews Its Revolutionary Origins (1944, repr...Dictionary of the French Revolution (tr...
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Week
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
...Egyptians used a 10-day period, as did the French under the short-lived French Revolutionary calendar . In many regions a four-day to eight...beginning on Sunday, official in the civil calendar. The Roman names for the days of the week...
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Fabre D'Églantine, Philippe FranÇois Nazaire
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
...felep fraNswa nazer fa br daglaNten , 1755 94, French dramatist and revolutionist. His chief work, Le...devise the names for the months and days of the French Revolutionary calendar. He was guillotined during the Terror...
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