The French Republican calendar, also commonly called the French Revolutionary calendar, was a calendar created and implemented during the French Revolution and used by the French government for about
French Republican Calendar of An III (1794 to 1795), drawn by Philibert-Louis Debucourt
A copy of the French Republican Calendar in the Historical Museum of Lausanne
L AN 2 DE LA REPUBLIQUE FR (Year 2 of the French Republic) on a barn near Geneva, dating to 1793 or 1794
French Revolutionary pocket watch showing ten-day décade names and thirty-day month numbers from the Republican Calendar, but with duodecimal time. On display at the Musée d'Art et d'Histoire (Neuchâtel) In Switzerland.
The Coup of 18 Brumaire brought Napoleon Bonaparte to power as First Consul of the French First Republic. In the view of most historians, it ended the French Revolution and would soon lead to the coro
French Republican calendar
…time is according to Paris mean time, which is 9 minutes 21 seconds (6.49 decimal minutes) ahead of Greenwich Mean Time. ( calibrates the time.) The "Coup of 18 Brumaire" or "Brumaire" was the coup d'état of Napoleon Bonaparte on 18 Brumaire An VIII (9 November 1799), which many historians consider to be the end of the…
Bonaparte at the Council of Five Hundred at Saint-Cloud by François Bouchot, 1840
Lucien Bonaparte, president of the Council of Five Hundred, who engineered the coup that brought his brother to power. Lucien Bonaparte at the Villa Rufinella by Francois-Xavier Fabre, 1808