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3.34a- The Republican Calendar

Revolutions

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Revolutionary or Republican Calendar?

After insurrection of august tenth, movement to remake the calendar went from interesting conversation in salons to actual working commission. Commission was chaired by charlet gibert rome, a mathematician who had also become a prominent national politician since being elected into the legislative assembly in 17 91. Most men he consulted were all enlightenment sciencenervs, mostly astronomers, chemists, geographers and mathematicians. There were also a few appointees from the more liberal art side of the world, the most prominent being poet, playwright and spinner of fictitious foreign plots, fabra deglantina. They decided to fix the beginning of the new year one at the moment the monarchy

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