Saturday, July 13, 2013

931. The French Republican Calendar

This one is super hard to classify. During the French Revolution, the revolutionaries introduced a new calendar to get rid of the old royalist and ecumenical influences inherent in the standard calendar. The result is a sequence of twelve thirty-day months, with each day associated with an animal, a tool, a plant, or a mineral. July 13th would roughly be the guinea fowl (pictured).

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