** You can find a review of the ‘proper’ months of the year (and days of the week) here. * Check out part 1 here and click here for part 2. Les mois du printemps (21 mars – 18 juin) Les mois d’automne (22 septembre – 20 décembre) Les mois were named to reflect a key element or aspect of the point in the year that month fell. Chaque année ( each year) would end with 5 (or 6) extra days to align with the solar year. Like the Gregorian calendar we know today, the revolutionary calendar divided the year up into 4 saisons et 12 mois ( 4 seasons and 12 months), but the new months were each of a uniform 30 jours ( days). From 1792 until 1806, they introduced their very own calendar, one that reset the clock and reshaped the year.
They were leaving behind the Monarchy and in their desire to build on a system of reason and logic, they also wanted to distance themselves and their new nation from the influence of the church. The leaders of the French Revolution wanted to make a definitive break with the past. It also gave us the calendrier républicain or calendrier révolutionnaire français ( Republican calendar / French revolutionary calendar) – which didn’t last quite as long. The French Revolution and France’s First Republic which it led to gave us many enduring ideals including the Déclaration des Droits de l’Homme et du Citoyen (The Declaration of the Rights of Man and of the Citizen) and the metric system which are still with us today (at least if you live anywhere in the world but the United States which is just one of three countries which have not adopted the metric system!). The clockwork bears the mark of the workshop belonging to one of the most outstanding clockmakers of the period, Abraham Louis Breguet (1747–1823).Before we leave juillet ( July) and our observances of the French Revolution* behind for another year, I thought it might be fun to explore briefly one of the odder ‘inventions’ of the First French Republic. The crying woman next to the traditional dial represents the Ancien Regime, with the chains of bondage. She is stepping on a many-headed monster wearing a crown and bishop’s mitre. Next to the new calendar we see the well-known allegorical figure of the revolution – known as Marianne – dressed in the colours of the French tricolour and a Phrygian hat. The two female figures, painted in enamel, are symbolic. The dial with traditional names is hanging on a chain from the neck of a crying woman, while the revolutionary one is held by a blue ribbon on the shoulder of a young girl. In the centre, placed one on top of the other, are two dials with the hours indicated 1–10 and I–XII, while on the two sides further dials indicate the days and the months, the traditional names on the left and the French revolutionary ones on the right. If you wondered why the radical secular left in the West today is getting increasingly irrational, violent and frenzied, all you have to do is go back and examine what began on July 14, 1789. Its escapement is provided with spindles, and there are four smaller dials on its round, white-enamelled dial plate. A new Revolutionary Calendar was established, with the months renamed, and even clocks were redesigned in decimal time. The watch in the clock collection of the Museum of Applied Arts was made using this dual system, and indicates not only the hours, but also the days and months. As the decimal system was only used in France – and only for 13 years – such clocks and watches are today quite rare (some examples are at the Musee Carnavalet, Paris). But it was a reproduction of a French Republican Calendar and it bears little resemblance to todays calendars. A number of special pocket watches were made that indicated time not only according to the traditional system but according to the decimal system, too. A new French revolutionary calendar was introduced as was a decimal numerical system to simplify the keeping of time.
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