3 weeks ago - The Concordat of 1801 re-established ... as the state religion of France. The concordat took effect from Easter Sunday, 28 Germinal, Year X (18 April 1802); it restored the names of the days of the week to the ones from the Gregorian calendar, and fixed Sunday as the official day ...

January 27, 2026 - As for the seven-day week, it was replaced by a ten-day cycle called a ‘décade‘: day names were changed to primidi (oneday), duodi (twoday), tridi (threeday), quartidi (fourday etc.), quintidi, sextidi, septidi, octidi, nonidi and décadi.

December 17, 2024 - In some respects, it hewed closely ... each month, the commission leaned into the decimal logic. Weeks would now be ten days long and would be called décades....

August 19, 2025 - And instead of the usual monday (lundi), mardi (tuesday), wednesday (mercredi), the days of the week changed names as well: Clock in the French Republican Calendar, courtesy of Wikipedia · In addition, each day in the new French Revolutionary ...

It was also agreed that each day ... names could not be used any more, so new 'day-names' were proposed: primidi, duodi, rdidi, quartidi, quintidi, sextidi, septidi, octidi, nonidi and décadi....

February 10, 2022 - And the names for these new units of time? The days of the week were sort-of Latin: primidi, duodi, tridi, quartidi, quintidi, sextidi, septidi, octidi, nonidi and décadi. Décadi was the day of rest.

September 18, 2013 - These days were named "Virtue Day" (September 17/18), "Genius Day" (September 18/19), "Labor Day" (September 19/20), "Opinion Day" (September 20/21) and "Awards Day" (September 21/22); the sixth day, once every four years, was called "Revolution ...

April 11, 2018 - The days of the week received names aligning with the number of the day: 1. Primidi 2. Duodi 3. Tridi 4. Quartidi 5. Quintidi 6. Sextidi 7. Septidi 8. Octidi 9. Nonidi 10. Décadi · The Revolutionary Calendar lasted until shortly after the French Revolution ended, at Napolean’s coronation on December 2, 1804.

February 3, 2021 - The French revolutionaries opted to change the week from 7 to 10 days and it worked for a while. Napoleon grasped power of France in 1799 with a coup in November and eventually proclaimed himself Emperor of France in 1804.

August 25, 2023 - 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.

July 12, 2023 - 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.

February 21, 2021 - The French Republic was established in 1792, three years after the start of the French Revolution. The members of the new Republican Government didn’t just deal with wiping out the royal family and as many nobles as they could, it was also about establishing a new order of equality and unity. You were no longer Monsieur or Madame, but Citoyen or Citoyenne. Regional divisions were reorganised. And the traditional Gregorian calendar with its seven day week and Saints Days and Christian festivals was eliminated.

June 16, 2022 - Implemented during the French Revolution, it was thought up to simplify time and better regulate work. Clocks/calendars were changed so that a week now had 10 days, a day had 10 hours, an hour had a 100 minutes, and a minute had a 1000 seconds.

October 26, 2022 - Then, under the leadership of Napoleon ... it was not declared the official state religion. The Concordat also restored the Gregorian names of weekdays and reestablished Sundays as the official days of rest for government ...

April 16, 2019 - In revolutionary France, an hour was almost twice as long, a minute slightly longer, and a second slightly shorter. Not only were frustrated clockmakers flummoxed, but, as Zerubavel explains, the calendar intentionally disrupted “church-attending practices, since it presented both practical and cognitive difficulties in keeping up with the traditional, sacred seven-day cycle.” It also meant you had to wait nine days for a weekend instead of six.

3 weeks ago - Each of the 360 days in the year was named for a seed, tree, flower, fruit, animal, or tool, replacing the saints’-day names and Christian festivals. Among the notable historical events marked by the republican calendar were the consolidation ...

January 8, 2026 - Thirdly, people rather liked their “saint name” days. Was anyone going to think about buying them a gift or wishing them well on turnip day or billy goat day? And finally, there were no holidays except the five or six days at end of the year! What French person could wait 12 months for a holiday? With 9-day work weeks, month names that only described northern France, no “second birthdays”, and no holidays until year end, it’s surprising the Republican calendar lasted the 12 or so years that it did.

March 18, 2026 - The tenth day, décadi, replaced Sunday as the day of rest and festivity. The five or six extra days needed to approximate the solar or tropical year were placed after the months at the end of each year.

September 29, 2019 - Another change was that the month was divided into décades and instead of weeks, the decades consisted of ten days called Primidi (first day), Duodi (second day), Tridi (third day), Quartidi (fourth day), Quintidi (fifth day), Sextidi (sixth day), Septidi (seventh day), Octidi (eighth day), Nonidi (ninth day), and Décadi (tenth day). Moreover, each day had a unique name and special meaning that was associated primarily with minerals, grains, animals, or plants, as indicated by the following examples: