Celebrating the reformation of time as we know it as introduced during the French Revolution of 1792 and implemented by the French government from 1793 - 1806.
Eventually there will be a nice long interesting writeup here, detailing the history and the mechanics of this calendar, including a bibliography and Wikipedia links throughout to the specific people, places, and events that made it happen. Until that day, here is a nice lazy link to the Wikipedia article on the calendar itself: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/French_Republican_calendar
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