Note
Category
Manuscripts and documents
Date
Unknown
Materials
Paper
Collection
Mr Straw's House, Nottinghamshire
NT 3131543.2.3
Summary
The last of three sheets of blue lined paper with a red marked margin torn from an exercise book with handwritten notes. The notes are kept in the book 'Outlines of European history' by Arthur James Grant (1862-1948) (record 3131543). Last sheet of notes, only written on one side the French Republican calendar. 'September Vendémiaire October Brumaire November Frimaire December Nivôse Jan Pluviôse Feb Ventôse March Germinal April Floréal May Prairial June Messidor July Thermidor August Fructidor'. The French Republican Calendar (French: calendrier républicain français), also commonly called the French Revolutionary Calendar (calendrier révolutionnaire français), was a calendar created and implemented during the French Revolution, and used by the French government for about 12 years from late 1793 to 1805, and for 18 days by the Paris Commune in 1871. The revolutionary system was designed in part to remove all religious and royalist influences from the calendar, and was part of a larger attempt at decimalisation in France (which also included decimal time of day, decimalisation of currency, and metrication).