Convert to french revolutionary calendar

The days of the French Revolution and Republic saw many efforts to sweep away various trappings of the Ancien RГ©gime (the old feudal monarchy) some of these were more successful than others. History ДЄ copy of the French Republican Calendar in the Historical Museum of Lausanne Later editions of the almanac would switch to the Republican Calendar.

Individual days were assigned, instead of to the traditional saints, to noteworthy people.

(The months of September through December are already numeric names, although their meanings do not match their positions in either the Julian or the Gregorian calendar since the Romans added the months January and February to the original ten-month March-to-December year of King Romulus.) The lengths of the months are the same as those in the Gregorian calendar however, the 10th, 20th, and 30th days are singled out of each month as the end of a dГ©cade (group of ten days). The first month in the almanac is 'Mars, ou Princeps' (March, or First), the last month is 'FГ©vrier, ou DuodГ©cembre' (February, or Twelfth). The prominent anticlerical atheist Sylvain MarГ©chal published the first edition of his Almanach des HonnГЄtes-gens (Almanac of Honest People) in 1788. 9 Famous dates and other cultural references.6 Converting from the Gregorian Calendar.Once stability was reached, however, Napoleon took every opportunity to subvert the pope's authority in France, and the church never reclaimed the authority it had under the Capetian monarchy. One of his first acts as consul was the Concordat of July 1801, which removed the anti-clerical laws of the revolution while keeping Catholicism the religion of 'the majority of the French people,' rather than the state religion. Napoleon was not fond of Catholicism, but after taking charge of France he decided it was important - both to himself, politically, and to the stability of France - that the Catholic Church return. He even instituted a 'Festival of the Supreme Being' in the summer of 1794. Some committee members were atheists, but Robespierre proposed - and actually set in place - a state religion called the Cult of the Supreme Being, which was based on Enlightenment deism. The goal of the Committee of Public Safety was to completely transform French society, going so far as to create a new calendar. In 1793, Maximilien Robespierre took charge of the new Committee of Public Safety, which became the de facto French government and ushered in the Reign of Terror. The Declaration of the Rights of Man also granted equal rights to those of other religions, including Judaism.

Thus the First Estate was summarily eliminated from the country of France and its property was seized. Only seven clerics in all of France did so. Meanwhile, the National Assembly created a Civil Constitution of France and, in 1790, passed a decree saying members of the clergy had to swear an oath of fealty to the constitution or leave France. To placate the people, Louis XVI decided to take the 6 percent of land owned by the Catholic Church in France and grant it to the National Assembly.

Convert to french revolutionary calendar