Exactly! The revolutionaries' error in this case was that they weren't revolutionary enough: they should have switched to a dozenal system. As it is, French r

Exactly! The revolutionaries' error in this case was that they weren't revolutionary enough: they should have switched to a dozenal system. As it is, French revolutionary units are an imperfect compromise, with no really good argument for them other than 'almost every country in the world uses them.'