Dials and Symbols of the French revolution, The Republican Calendar and Decimal time. The Horological Foundation.
 
Dials & Symbols
 of the French Revolution,
the Republican Calendar
and Decimal time

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Index.

Appendix.

Calendar & time.

Dials.

Republican <-> Gregorian conversion.

The Metric System.

The Republican calendar and decimal time.

Symbols explained.

Sources & further reading.

 
...... to establish a new Republican identity, French Revolutionaries replaced monarchical and religious symbols with "Enlightenment" imagery and introduced a decimal-based calendar (1793–1805).
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