While reading through the links above, I found this link. The adoption of the metric system was slow and not complete by the mid-1790s, while the revolutionary calendar and decimal time were widely ignored by the French people and eventually abolished in 1806. Some are redundant, but not necessarily exact copies. Each day had 10 hours, each hour 100 decimal. I have no plans for a post on that topic specifically, but I thought the links were worth keeping. The calendar year still had 12 months, but each month was divided into 3 weeks (called dcades) of 10 days each. The 12 months of the calendar each contained three dГ©cades (instead of weeks) of 10 days each at the end of the year were grouped five (six in leap years) supplementary days. But even he lost his cool in the subsequent years.I was doing some research for another post and ended up with a few good pages on the topic of the seven-day week, its origin, the meanings of the names of the days, etc. The French republican calendar was based on a secular calendar first presented by Pierre-Sylvain MarГ©chal in 1788. And for a time, Robespierre, known by his contemporaries as the 'Incorruptible,' was a steady and righteous leader. Robespierre decided that someone would have to govern the frenzied French. The French Revolution was a watershed event in modern European history that began in 1789 and ended in the late 1790s with the ascent of Napoleon Bonaparte. In the outlying provinces, the rural French people were outraged by urban violence. Was this still a revolution for democracy, or was it just gratuitous bloodshed? The French reconsidered their stance, too. The months in orderbeginning with one corresponding to the Gregorian months of September and Octoberwere Vendmiaire (meaning vintage), Brumaire (mist), Frimaire (frost), Nivse. The 12 months of the calendar each contained three dcades (instead of weeks) of 10 days each at the end of the year were grouped five (six in leap years) supplementary days. The massacre brought Europe's critical gaze zeroing in on France. The French republican calendar was based on a secular calendar first presented by Pierre-Sylvain Marchal in 1788. The bloodbath became known as the September Massacre. The sans-culottes rose to the occasion and wiped out thousands of prisoners - men and women, aristocrats and clergy - in just a few days.

The modern French navyвЂ™s six Floral-class frigates are also named after months in the calendar.

It was also briefly revived in the 1848 revolution and the 1871 Paris Commune. He feared that with the population of Paris outnumbered by the imprisoned counter-revolutionaries, the revolution would be squelched. The вЂRepublican CalendarвЂ™ was a short-lived experiment, lasting from 1793 to 1805, when it was done away with by Napoleon. This time, the Jacobin journalist's directive was straightforward: Kill all the political prisoners. Marat stepped in again to rally the people to action. The calendar design was a year divided into 12 months of three 10-day weeks or decades. The threat of foreign troops encroaching on French soil finally convinced the Convention to send revolutionary militia to the outskirts of France, and the city of Paris thereby became devoid of protection. The French Republican calendar was adopted in 1793, but its epoch was set to September 22, 1792. His priority was the battlefield while Robespierre concerned himself with more immediate threats in the city of Paris. Year 1 begins with the declaration of the Republic in September 1792. Danton was a rotund, convivial man with jarring opinions and a loud voice. October 5: Revolutionary Calendar introduced as part of the revolutionary program of dechristianization. Georges Danton and Robespierre, once political allies, refused to see eye to eye. The Jacobins were split on the matter of war. While the wars began in an effort to protect France's borders from other European monarchies who would seek to restore Louis to the throne, they'd become an ideological mission of spreading revolutionary fervor through Europe. The poorly waged French Revolutionary Wars against Austria and Prussia only divided the factions further. Louis' death didn't put to rest any controversies within the Convention, though.

French revolutionary calendar week