USA HISTORY

Detailed explanation-1: -The Gregorian calendar, an instrument decreed by Pope Gregory XIII in 1582, was replaced by the French Republican Calendar which abolished the sabbath, saints’ days and any references to the Church. The seven-day week became ten days instead.

Detailed explanation-2: -Religious practice was outlawed and replaced with the cult of the Supreme Being, a deist state religion. The program of dechristianization waged against the Christian people of France increased in intensity with the enactment of the Law of 17 September 1793, also known as the Law of Suspects.

Detailed explanation-3: -By 1794, the radical revolutionaries had literally attempted to ‘de-Christianize’ France by closing down churches, forcing priests to resign or emigrate, and inventing new republican cults to replace Christianity.

Detailed explanation-4: -Details of the New Calendar In 1793, the French revolutionaries decided to introduce a calendar which still had 12 months, but each month would be made up of a fixed 30 days. The 30 days would be divided into 3 weeks of 10 days each, instead of 4 weeks of 7 days, to make the whole thing even.