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Choix des Rapports, xii. 432-42.
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September 22nd of 1792 is Vendémiaire 1st of Year One, and the new months are all of 30 days each; therefore:
To the number of the We have the number of the
day in Add day in Days
Vendémiaire 21 September 30
Brumaire 21 October 31
Frimaire 20 November 30
Nivose 20 December 31
Pluviose 19 January 31
Ventose 18 February 28
Germinal 20 March 31
Floréal 19 April 30
Prairial 19 May 31
Messidor 18 June 30
Thermidor 18 July 31
Fructidor 17 August 31
There are 5 Sansculottides, and in leap-year a sixth, to be added at the end of Fructidor. Romme’s first Leap-year is ‘An 4’(1795, not 1796), which is another troublesome circumstance, every fourth year, from “September 23d” round to “February 29” again.
The New Calendar ceased on the 1st of January 1806. See Choix des Rapports, xiii. 83-99; xix. 199.
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Deux Amis, xi. 147; xiii. 160-92, &c.