#republican calendar

[cy-lindric]

The months of winter of the Republican calendar : Nivôse (the month of Snows), Pluviôse (the month of Rains) and Ventôse (the month of Winds) !

[alchemyfire]

Day of an orange

24th Brumaire is the day of oranges, citoyens and also happens to be my birthday. 😌😍🍋

Lets all have an orange, today. (And leave some for Maximilien.) 😉

[portablefrailty]

Vendémiaire

The latest installment of my series based on the French Republican Calendar. Vendémiaire was the first month of the year, beginning on the fall solstice and ending 30 days later. It's the first month of the autumn quarter, followed by Brumaire and Frimaire. The name is derived from the Occitan term for wine harvesting.

[voluptuarian]

Fun fact, today is the 230th anniversary of the short-lived Republican calendar instituted by the French Revolutionary government-- it was officially adopted on this day in 1793 and in use until January 1st, 1806. Hope everyone is having a lovely first of Brumaire today 😜

[yakkolicious]

I got bluebonnet (or lupin)! Very pretty flowers, here's their Wikipedia page image:

look at the republican calendar and see which animal/plant/item is associated with your birthday ok. if you're born january 14 you get the day of the cat

[partialto]

The French Republican Calendar

[just-a-little-unionoid]

me: I want my urban fantasy story to take place onan alternative version of Earth, so I'm not sure I want to refer to actual countries in the text

also me: so I've been thinking about using the French Republican calendar instead of the Gregorian one?

[outer-spec]

tumblr if the french republican calendar still existed:

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to remember how many days there are in a gregorian month, u just gotta use this rhyme:

thirty days h september april june and november, all the rest have thirty one, except for february for some reason idk

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To remember how many days there are in a french republican month you just remember “30” because our calendar wasn’t invented by a drunk mathematician rolling dice.

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yeah well at least we don’t have fucking leap months

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happy birthday 2 Fromental Halévy!!! 🎉

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bro it’s already may 29, ur literally two days late

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its the 7th of prarial you american

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TIL lobster thermidor is named after the month “thermidor”… I feel so stupid

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Actually, the lobster dish is named after the play Thermidor, which takes place during the French Revolution!

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thanks, now i feel even stupider

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do french stoners think Nivose 20th is an extremely funny date????

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why would i find “20/4” funny

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friendly reminder that you don’t get to celebrate french new year unless you’re literally french or if you are invited by a french person

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As a French person, I invite everyone reading this to celebrate Raisin with us! 🍇🎊🍾

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wait werent you the guy who said napoleon did nothing wrong

[empirearchives]

This is such a pretty picture of Napoleon, c. 1796

Portrait of General Bonaparte, 1796, by Louis Lafitte (Fondation Napoléon)

[cy-lindric]

full cover for the calendar !

[sappymix1]

good night. i hope the world ends so i don’t have to get up tomorrow

[fremedon]

AND! The Republican calendar--the one that gave us the months of Thermidor, Brumaire, etc--replaced saint's days with a titulary animal, plant, mineral, or tool for every day of the year; so instead of naming your kids after the saint celebrated on their birthday, you could name them Strawberry or Asphalt or Sled.

One super funny thing about the French Rev (that Victor Hugo even references in Les Mis) is the way it altered naming conventions, resulting in tons of WILD amazing ridiculous names!

Basically what happened was— during the French Rev the laws around registering names were relaxed, so people started giving extremely revolutionary names to themselves and their babies.

Sadly Napoleon’s government later cracked down on this. When Napoleon came into power he passed a restrictive law mandating that people had to choose among a list of “normal” names, banning the weird revolution ones, because he was a spineless coward afraid of the power these names had. The restrictive naming laws weren’t repealed until late in the 20th century.

But anyway here are some of my favorite French Rev baby names (taken from this list):

Mort Aux Aristocrates -“Death to Aristocrats”

Amour Sacré de la Patrie l’an Trois -“Sacred Love of the Fatherland Year III”

Lagrenade —“The Grenade”

Droit de l’Homme Tricolor “Right of Man Tricolor”

Égalité — “Equality”

Régénérée Vigueur— “Regenerated Strength”

Marat, ami du peuple -“Marat, friend of the people”

Marat, défenseur de la Patrie—“Marat, defender of the Fatherland”

La Loi-“The Law”

Philippe Thomas Ve de bon coeur pour la République — “Philippe Thomas ‘Go with a good heart for the Republic’”

Raison —“Reason”

Simon Liberté ou la Mort —“Simon “Freedom or Death””

Citoyen Français—“French Citizen”

Sans Crainte— “Without Fear”

Unitée Impérissable— “Imperishable Unity”

Victoire Fédérative— “Federal Victory”

Vengeur Constant —“Constant Avenger”

[deerinhorror]

[rmelster]

Pluviôse.

Second month of winter, pluviôse (name that was inspired for the Latin “pluviosus”, meaning rainy) started around the 20th of January, and coincided with the apparent passage of the Sun through the zodiacal constellation of Aquarius

[paperandsong]

Nivôse, Chéri Hérouard, 1917

[rayatii]

Fuck 2025, I’m not ready for it. From now on, I’m adopting the French republican calendar! Happy 12th of Nivôse 223, day of clay, NOT a New Year’s Day!