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Revolutionaries even attempted a metric day of 10 hours of 100 minutes each of 100 seconds each.

Floréal, the month of flowers (April 20).Vendémiaire, month of the vintage (starting approximately Sept.29 leap day of the Gregorian Calendar.ĭ'Églantine's names for the months poetically reflected the seasons: The Revolutionary leap day thus occurred in the autumn before the Feb. This created a sixth year-end holiday, the Day of the Revolution (making for seven days off). Leap year occurred on the third year of every Franciade, as the four-year cycle was called. Together with the last day of the previous month, they made for six consecutive holidays. Some folks resented that.įive extra days at the end of each year were set aside for the Festivals of Virtue, Genius, Labor, Opinion and Rewards. The 10th day was a day of rest, thus leaving non-agricultural workers with only three days off each month instead of four. The months were divided into three décades of 10 days each. The year was divided into 12 egalitarian months of 30 days each. It swept away all the festivals and observances, including Sunday and its weekly prayer and rest. The calendar struck a direct blow against the Catholic Church and its clergy, who had been the powerful First Estate prior to the revolution. That was not only the birth date of the republic, but - rather conveniently, it turned out - the autumnal equinox in 1792. The calendar was regarded as beginning more than a year earlier on Sept. It went into effect and became compulsory on Nov. The date on the Republican Calendar was 14 Vendémiaire An II (Year 2).

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Note: Some lectures on the French Revolution can be found in Yale’s course European Civilization, 1648-1945, which appears in our collection, 1,700 Free Online Courses from Top Universities.The new calendar became law on Oct. To explore more image archives, please see our recent post: Where to Find Free Art Images & Books from Great Museums & Libraries. In the mid 1990s, I spent long stretches of time reading those documents in the great reading room of the old BN.

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It contains the Archives parlementaires, a series of historical documents that record the political events of the Revolution. Scholars of the French Revolution won’t want to miss another part of the newly-created archive.

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If you find one you like, you can choose to download the image in a high-resolution format, ranging from small to extra large.

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The images in the archive can be sorted by theme. And, at the bottom, we have a vivid display of the Revolution’s choice instrument of capital punishment - the guillotine. Plus an image of an “aristocratic hydre” in combat with the people. Immediately below, you can see a depiction of Liberty (a modern version of a Greek goddess) triumphing over past political abuses. The new archive contains visual materials that will intrigue scholars as much as history buffs.Ībove you can see one image celebrating a founding document of the Revolution - 1789’s Les droits de l’homme et du citoyen ( The Rights of Man and Citizen). But perhaps you’re not as familiar with where revolutionary propaganda all began, in which case you’ll want to rummage through a new archive of 14,000 images from the French Revolution, created by Stanford University and the Bibliothèque nationale de France (BnF). More than a century later, the Russian revolutionaries would use the French blueprint and all cultural tools at their disposal to promote its Marxist ideals.