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The Republican calendar: a new measure of revolutionary time<\/span><\/p>\n Le republican calendar<\/strong>, also known as French revolutionary calendar<\/strong>, was one of the most daring symbols of the French Revolution. Introduced to break with monarchical and religious traditions, it aimed to re-found society, even in the way it measured time.<\/span><\/p>\n Origins and historical context<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n The Republican calendar is adopted by the National convention<\/strong> at 1793<\/strong>, at the height of the French Revolution. Its starting point was retroactively set at 22 September 1792<\/strong>, date of the proclamation of the Republic.<\/span><\/p>\n The objective is clear:<\/span><\/p>\n The design of the calendar was entrusted in particular to the poet Fabre d'\u00c9glantine<\/strong>, who came up with the names of the months.<\/span><\/p>\n Structure of the Republican calendar<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n Months<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n The year is divided into 12 months of 30 days<\/strong>, They are organised according to the seasons and the farm work:<\/span><\/p>\n Each name evokes a natural or climatic phenomenon, marking a return to nature and the cycle of the seasons.<\/span><\/p>\n Weeks and days<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n The Sans-culottides<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n At the end of the year, we added 5 additional days<\/strong> (6 in leap years), called Sans-culottides<\/strong>.<\/span> Decimal time: a complementary reform<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n Following the same logic of rationalisation, the revolutionaries tried to impose the\u2019decimal time<\/strong> :<\/span><\/p>\n This reform, which is too complex to apply on a day-to-day basis, will soon be abandoned.<\/span><\/p>\n Abandonment and legacy<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n The Republican calendar remained in force until 1805<\/strong><\/span>, date on which Napoleon Bonaparte<\/strong> decided to re-establish the Gregorian calendar to facilitate international and administrative relations.<\/span><\/p>\n Despite its short existence, the republican calendar has left a lasting mark. lasting legacy<\/strong> :<\/span><\/p>\n Conclusion<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n The Republican calendar illustrates just how far the French Revolution wanted to go to transform society. More than a simple dating tool, it embodies a radical desire to break with the past and reinvent the world according to reason, nature and the Republic.<\/span><\/p>\n Even today, it fascinates historians, teachers and history buffs as one of the most original - and ambitious - projects of the French Revolution.<\/span><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Le calendrier r\u00e9publicain : une nouvelle mesure du temps r\u00e9volutionnaire Le calendrier r\u00e9publicain, aussi appel\u00e9 calendrier r\u00e9volutionnaire fran\u00e7ais, est l\u2019un des symboles les plus audacieux de la R\u00e9volution fran\u00e7aise. […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":228057,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[62],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-228055","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-genealogie","et-has-post-format-content","et_post_format-et-post-format-standard"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/geniwal.be\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/228055","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/geniwal.be\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/geniwal.be\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/geniwal.be\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/geniwal.be\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=228055"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/geniwal.be\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/228055\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":228059,"href":"https:\/\/geniwal.be\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/228055\/revisions\/228059"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/geniwal.be\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/228057"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/geniwal.be\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=228055"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/geniwal.be\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=228055"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/geniwal.be\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=228055"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}\n
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\nThey are dedicated to civic celebrations: virtue, genius, work, opinion, awards, and sometimes the Revolution itself.<\/span><\/p>\n\n
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