MAKING OF A NEW NATION 1776 1800
THE FRENCH REVOLUTION
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Marie Antoinette loved the fanciful new names of the months
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The old calendar was associated with Christianity
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Astronomers had discovered that the old calendar was no longer accurate
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France was at war with Russia
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Detailed explanation-1: -French republican calendar, dating system that was adopted in 1793 during the French Revolution and which was intended to replace the Gregorian calendar with a more scientific and rational system that would avoid Christian associations.
Detailed explanation-2: -As the rapporteur of the commission, Charles-Gilbert Romme presented the new calendar to the Jacobin-controlled National Convention on 23 September 1793, which adopted it on 24 October 1793 and also extended it proleptically to its epoch of 22 September 1792.
Detailed explanation-3: -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.
Detailed explanation-4: -On 6 October, 1793 (15 Vendémiaire, An II), the Convention decided to create a new calendar for the new Republic, fixing the start date as the day when that Republic was proclaimed, namely the autumn equinox, 22 September, 1792.