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Ten-day weeks, briefly.
Also known as: Revolutionary calendar, Decimal calendar France
The calendar of the French Revolution, dividing the year into twelve thirty-day months of three ten-day weeks.
Divided the year into twelve thirty-day months of three ten-day weeks, with five or six extra days at the end.
Contexts: History
Abolished the seven-day week, which removed the Sunday and gave workers one rest day in ten instead of one in seven — an unpopularity that contributed materially to its abandonment after about twelve years.
Contexts: History
Named every day of the year for a plant, an animal or a tool in place of the saints' days it replaced, so the calendar restructured both the arithmetic and the culture of the year.
Contexts: History
A day named for a plant, tool or animal, a month named for its season, and a year in Roman numerals counted from the founding of the Republic.