There were twelve months in each year, each divided into three 10-month weeks called décades. The years were given Roman numerals, with year I beginning 22 September 1792. The calendar was abolished on 1 January 1806 by Napoleon. Politicians, astronomers, and mathematicians collaborated on its creation, and the months were named by a poet and a gardener. It was adopted for two reasons: first, to remove all religious and royalist influences from the calendar, and second, as a part of the effort to decimalize measurements in France. As you can see in this picture, the date on this record is 23 Brumaire an once de la Republique francaise, or 23 Brumaire year eleven of the Republic of France.Ĭurious about what Brumaire and year eleven of the Republic of France might mean, I turned to Google and learned that the French Republican Calendar, also known as the French Revolutionary Calendar, was implemented at the end of the French Revolution in 1792. As I was abstracting the French records, I noticed some unfamiliar terminology in some of the dates. I recently completed a client project in which one of the objectives was to verify the genealogically significant information in some German and French birth, marriage, and death records.
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