When the French Revolution started in 1789, he was appointed as artistic director and commissioned to. Though quiet today, in the eighteenth and early-nineteenth centuries the. Gregorian calendar is the calendar we use today. There are several websites that allow you to convert any date in the Gregorian calendar to the French Revolutionary calendar, such as. Nivose: Fourth month of the French Revolutionary calendar, corresponding to. They were considered national holidays and were named as follows:Ĭelebration of the Revolution (leap years only) (even today, this statement is still valid due to the uncertainty in T). Since twelve 30-day months only adds to 360 days, five special days (six in leap years) were inserted between Fructidor of one year and Vendemiaire of the next year. The French Republican Calendar or French Revolutionary Calendar is a calendar.
September 22, the day the French revolution began in 1792, was the first day of the year. The names of the months were based on nature and weather: Vendemiaire (vintage), Brumaire (mist), Frimaire (frost), Nivose (snow), Pluviose (rain), Ventose (wind), Germinal (seed), Floreal (flower), Prairial (meadow), Messidor (harvest), Thermidor (heat) and Fructidor (fruit). In addition, each day consisted of 10 hours, each hour of 100 minutes, and each minute of 100 seconds. Each month was made up of three 10-day weeks called decades, and the days of the week were simply named according to their position: primidi, duodi, tridi, quartidi, quintidi, sextidi, septidi, octidi, nonidi, decadi.
It sought to remove all religious and royalist influences from the calendar, and to make calendar math easier to do.Įach year consisted of twelve months, and each month consisted of 30 days. France is split into 3 different zones for the school holidays, each zone taking turns to being school holidays. For those who don't know, the French Revolutionary calendar was a calendar implemented during the French Revolution from 1792 to 1805. The most important date is still the 14th of July, which is Bastille day, the festival of the French revolution.