Vendémaire (September 22nd/23rd/24th October 21st, 22nd or 23rd) This is traditionally the moment when many fresh fruits and nuts would be ripe and harvested. Late summer marks Fructidor, or the time of fruitfulness. Fructidor (August 18th/19th to 21st/22nd September) Midsummer in the revolutionary calendar corresponds to Thermidor, or “month of warmth”. Thermidor (July 19th/20th August 17th/18th) Frequently symbolized by wheat, it refers to a period of harvest. The summer begins with Messidor, often depicted and described as a time of relaxation after a period of labor. Messidor (June 19th/20th to August 17th/18th) The third and final spring month under the calendrier républicain is Prairial, which comes from the French prairie, or meadow. Prairial (May 20th/21st to June 19th/20th The second spring month is Floréal which refers to the blossoming of seasonal flowers and marks the beginning of the sign of Taurus.
Floréal (April 20th/21st to May 19th/20th) The French novelist Emile Zola would later give the name to his famous novel of 1885.
Its name derives from the Latin word “germen”, meaning bud or sprout. Marking the first month of spring, Germinal refers to budding plants. Germinal (March 21st/22nd to April 19th/20th) The 10 days of the week were named as follows:Īnd the months as follows: 1. There were only 10 hours in a day not 24. Weeks were given 10 days, and months were given three “decades” to account for the 30 days. Replacing “Saint’s Days” in the Gregorian calendar, each day of the year was assigned a seasonally appropriate plant, flower, fruit, or other food or food preparation item (for example, October 4th corresponds to Potiron (winter squash or pumpkin) May 25th is Mélisse (lemon balm) etc).Īll twelve months were assigned 30 days allowing for five or six extra days at the end of the year. The authors of the calendar changed the names of months and the days of the week, eliminating all Judeo-Christian religious references and replacing these with Latin-based names that most frequently referred to plants and other natural phenomena. It is strikingly different from the Gregorian one we again use today. It was widely used, both in France and other countries then under French rule (including the Netherlands and Belgium). In the France of the 1790s, the Gregorian calendar was temporarily replaced with the French revolutionary calendar, or calendrier républicain (Republican calendar). The French Revolutionary Calendar was used by the French government for 12 years from late 1793 to 1805, and for 18 days in 1871 by the Paris commune.įollow the link to enter any date from September 21st 1792 to convert it to the French Revolutionary Calendar
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