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I know the real goal of the republican calendar was to undermine the Church's power by making it so Sundays would fall at random days of the week, and also scre

I know the real goal of the republican calendar was to undermine the Church's power by making it so Sundays would fall at random days of the week, and also screw over the workers by leaving them with a worse weekend-to-week ratio. However, all I ever read about this part of the revolution seems to indicate that people just didn't comply and went to church anyway on Sundays, and also didn't work that day. On that account, I feel likr your quote is kind of partisan. People wouldn't have been left lost and aimlessly drinking on their tenth day because of a lack of God, because they never quit going to church!

paulorlando 1y ago
Not sure I understand what you mean. At least, I thought that (most? all?) the churches were closed for the worst part of the French Revolution aftermath. For example, the new state transformed Notre Dame and other Catholic churches into Temples of Reason, from which the new state religion, the Cult of Reason, would be celebrated. It didn't last long. Hard to create a new religion quickly. Maybe some echoes of recent history there.
- thrance 1y ago
  It was much more nuanced than that, and the vast majority of the French people stayed Christian during the period. Also, keep in mind the revolution was mostly a Paris thing, the rest of the country was left relatively unaffected at first. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dechristianization_of_France_during_the_French_Revolution?wprov=sfla1 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dechristianization_of_France_d...
  - paulorlando 1y ago
    Is the difference "stayed Catholic" vs the churches had to close?
    - pessimizer 1y ago
      Pretty sure it mattered when and where you were. Armies and militias were sent to put down defiant regions who had set up their own armies and militias in order to keep the Revolution out.
  - mousethatroared 1y ago
    Ya, Vendee really protests too much
ashoeafoot 1y ago
https://de.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sowjetischer_Revolutionskalender https://de.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sowjetischer_Revolutionskale... did the divide and conquer of people better by asigning them non overlapping weekends by colour
- pona-a 1y ago
  English desktop link. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Soviet_calendar https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Soviet_calendar

paulorlando 1y ago

Not sure I understand what you mean. At least, I thought that (most? all?) the churches were closed for the worst part of the French Revolution aftermath. For example, the new state transformed Notre Dame and other Catholic churches into Temples of Reason, from which the new state religion, the Cult of Reason, would be celebrated. It didn't last long. Hard to create a new religion quickly. Maybe some echoes of recent history there.

thrance 1y ago
It was much more nuanced than that, and the vast majority of the French people stayed Christian during the period. Also, keep in mind the revolution was mostly a Paris thing, the rest of the country was left relatively unaffected at first. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dechristianization_of_France_during_the_French_Revolution?wprov=sfla1 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dechristianization_of_France_d...
- paulorlando 1y ago
  Is the difference "stayed Catholic" vs the churches had to close?
  - pessimizer 1y ago
    Pretty sure it mattered when and where you were. Armies and militias were sent to put down defiant regions who had set up their own armies and militias in order to keep the Revolution out.
- mousethatroared 1y ago
  Ya, Vendee really protests too much

ashoeafoot 1y ago

https://de.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sowjetischer_Revolutionskalender https://de.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sowjetischer_Revolutionskale... did the divide and conquer of people better by asigning them non overlapping weekends by colour

pona-a 1y ago
English desktop link. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Soviet_calendar https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Soviet_calendar