This day, called the Day of the Revolution, is placed at the end of the year and forms the sixth of the Sansculotides. In order to maintain the coincidence of the civil year with celestial movements, the ordinary year receives one extra day according to the requirements of the position of the equinox. The last last days are called Sansculotides. VIIIĮach month is divided into three equal parts of ten days each that are called décades. The twelve months are followed by five days that complete the ordinary year these five days don’t belong to any month. The year is divided into twelve equal months of thirty days each. All acts dated the second year of the republic passed between January 1 and September 21 are regarded as belonging to the first year of the Republic. The decree that fixed the beginning of the second year on January 1,1793 is repealed. The second year began Septemat midnight, the true autumn equinox having arrived that day for the Paris Observatory at 3:11:38 in the evening. The first year of the French Republic began at midnight September 22, 1792, and ended at midnight separating the 21 from the 22 September, 1793 V IIIĮvery year begins at midnight of the day of the autumn equinox for the Paris observatory. The vulgar era is abolished for civil usage. The era of the French is counted from the Republic, which took place Septemof the vulgar era, the day when the sun reached the true autumn equinox for the Paris Observatory by entering into the sign of Libra, at 9:18:30 in the morning. The National Convention, after having heard its Committee of Public Instruction, decrees the following: Art. Of the 4th Frimaire, year two of the Republic on the era, the beginning, and the organization of the year, and on the names of the days and the months. The poets contributed the name of the days, choosing the names of plants, domestic animals and tools and the months rhyme three by three for each season. The mathematicians contributed equal month division, and a decimal measures of time. The calendar was adopted more than one year after the advent of the First Republic (there was no year 1), after a long debate involving the mathematicians Romme and Monge, the poets Chénier and Fabre d’Eglantine and the painter David. The decimal system eventually became the world standard for all other measures except time however. A new clock was also decreed, with a day divided into 10 hours of 100 minutes of 100 seconds, each second about 20% shorter than a second on the old clock, and each minute about 20% longer. It was used again briefly during the Paris Commune of 1871. The Republican Calendar was officially adopted in France on Octoand abolished on 1 January 1806 by Emperor Napoleon I. Translated: from the original for by Mitchell Abidor ĬopyLeft: Creative Commons (Attribute & ShareAlike) 2005. Read the legislative texts which established le Calendrier Républicain.French Revolution 1793 Decree on the Republican Calendar The calendar was one of the great reforms undertaken by the national Convention, like the Metric system. The Eiffel Tower shown at right was built in commemoration of the French Revolution, and was built for the Paris World’s Fair in 1889. The poets contributed the name of the days, choosing the names of plants, domestic animals and tools the months rhyme three by three, according to the "sonority" of the seasons. The calendar was adopted more than one year after the advent of the First Republic (there was no year 1), after a long debate involving the mathematicians Romme and Monge, the poets Chénier and Fabre d’ Eglantine and the painter David. The French also established a new clock, in which the day was divided in ten hours of a hundred minutes of a hundred seconds - exactly 100,000 seconds per day. It was used again briefly during under the Paris Commune in 1871. The French Revolutionary Calendar (or Republican Calendar) was officially adopted in France on Octoand abolished on 1 January 1806 by Emperor Napoleon I.
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