Posted 08/13/2007 04:59 am
The French revolutionary calendar reckoned Year 1 as AD 1792 - the year the French Republic was proclaimed. Technically, the first day of Year 1 was 22 September (the autumn equinox), so a coin dated "Year 7" could have been struck anytime between September 1798 and September 1799. Since most of Year 7 falls within 1799, that's the year normally given as a conversion date.
The calendar was officially abolished by Napoleon on January 1, AD 1806 (partway through Year 14), though the other novel concepts the revolutionaries invented to measure time (decimal time: 10-day weeks, 10 hour days, etc.) fell out of favour well before this.
The calendar was officially abolished by Napoleon on January 1, AD 1806 (partway through Year 14), though the other novel concepts the revolutionaries invented to measure time (decimal time: 10-day weeks, 10 hour days, etc.) fell out of favour well before this.
Don't say "infinitely" when you mean "very"; otherwise, you'll have no word left when you want to talk about something really infinite. - C. S. Lewis
My goal in life is simply to learn and retain as much about coins as Sap knows! Encyclopedic, he is.
