Republic Proclaimed: France Abolishes Monarchy
France didn't just overthrow its king — it tried to overthrow time itself. The new Republic scrapped the Gregorian calendar entirely, declared Year One, renamed the months after weather and harvests, and split each week into ten days instead of seven. Today was Primidi Vendémiaire: first day of the grape harvest month. The system lasted twelve years before Napoleon quietly killed it. But for one generation of Frenchmen, history itself had a new start date.
September 22, 1792
234 years ago
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