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The French Republican calendar is covered by the Revolutions podcast, from Mike Duncan who did the History of Rome podcast. http://www.revolutionspodcast.com/ h
by loudmax 9y ago
The French Republican calendar is covered by the Revolutions podcast, from Mike Duncan who did the History of Rome podcast. http://www.revolutionspodcast.com/ http://www.revolutionspodcast.com/
Much like the metric system, the structure of the new calendar was quite simple and elegant. Naturally, once the Reign of Terror came into full swing, the creators of the Republican calendar were executed along with anyone else who was insufficiently zealous. Today, the only people who use it are students of the French Revolution who have to decipher all these crazy dates.
- colanderman 9y agoI'm somewhat history-illiterate, and Wikipedia isn't illuminating in this matter. Why would the revolutionaries want to execute people who created the revolutionary calendar?
- KineticLensman 9y agoThe French revolution included multiple power struggles between competing revolutionary factions [1], which led to numerous executions of revolutionaries by revolutionaries including some of the founders of the republic (the same happened in Russia in 1917). The revolutionary calendar was partially reverted to the older Gregorian calendar with effect from 1802 (several years after the Reign of Terror) and fully abolished by Napoleon in 1806 [2]. He had become Emperor of the French and wanted to replace the vestiges of the Republic that had installed the calendar in the first place. [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reign_of_Terror https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reign_of_Terror [2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/French_Republican_Calendar https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/French_Republican_Calendar