Talk:French Republican calendar

message: Does that cause something to be knocked a day off?  The French Revolurionary calendar started in 1792, and Gregorian wasn't officially restored until 1806. Carlm0404 (talk) 07:24, 17 December 2021 (UTC)
replies: text: This has gone unanswered for over a year, and likely won’t be read, but the answer is that the Republican Calendar is independent of the Georgian, so the leap years, or lack thereof, in one calendar have no effect on the other.  —Nike (talk) 12:30, 15 February 2023 (UTC)
thread_title:  1800 not a Gregorian leap year 

message: Is it worth mentioning, under "cultural references", that most of the Elvish month names given by Tolkien in Appendix B are translations of the Republican names? But perhaps it's coincidental. —Tamfang (talk) 18:18, 14 January 2023 (UTC)
replies: text: I guess not, that's OR/synthesis. —Tamfang (talk) 22:54, 14 January 2023 (UTC)
replies: text: I’d say not OR/synthesis, it has been described and discussed in Jim Allan (ed.) (1978), An Introduction to Elvish, p. 151. — Mithrennaith (talk) 11:31, 6 March 2023 (UTC)
thread_title:  Elvish 

message: "Among these almanacs the most significant was Sylvain Marechal's Almanach des Honnetes Gens, published in I788.4 It contained the real germ of the Republican Calendar. Here appeared the year of twelve equal months with five or six complementary days (scattered through the year, however, instead of all coming together at the end), and each month divided into three decades. But the most startling innovation, at least to contemporaries, was the substitution of " hon- netes gens" for the saints of the Gregorian Calendar. The work was roundly denounced by the government, which ordered it " torn up and burned . . . as impious, sacrilegious, blasphemous, and tending to destroy religion". Such drastic action may have been some- what responsible for later almanacs being less radical, but it did not stop their publication. Since their propagandic value was soon rceognized by the Revolutionary leaders, the number increased. 
In I79I the Jacobin Club offered a prize of twenty-five louis for the best patriotic almanac. Forty-two works were submitted to the judges and the prize was won by Collot d'Herbois with his Almanach du Pe're Gerard.6 The award to Collot, however, revealed the note- worthy fact that even among the Jacobins of I79I, anti-religious sentiment was not yet predominant, for his almanac retained the saints' days of the old calendar."
 let's discuss, not just revert. Doug Weller talk 15:53, 14 February 2023 (UTC)
replies: text: I think I've found a source which should make you happy but have no time to do it today. If you have JSTOR access it is Making the Revolutionary Calendar Author(s): George Gordon Andrews Source: The American Historical Review , Apr., 1931, Vol. 36, No. 3 (Apr., 1931), pp. 515- 532. Doug Weller talk 15:56, 14 February 2023 (UTC)
replies: text:  Please keep your replies in the main thread Scarabocchio (talk) 16:13, 14 February 2023 (UTC)
replies: text: @Scarabocchio that ship has sailed, it wouldn't make sense for me to comment  on material in this thread by posting in another thread. Do you agree that the material I've quoted here needs to be in someway in the article? Doug Weller talk 16:52, 14 February 2023 (UTC)

text: I don't think I can quote more due to copyright issues, but the article basically concludes by saying that the majority of the people didn't want a change but a "group" of zealots motivated by a desire for a more logical system and wanting to at least reduce the influence of Christianity got it adopted. Your problem seems to be an attempt to use logic to connect the dots but we don't work that way, we need sources explicitly stating that. And this should be in the body of the text with sources, summarised in the lead without sources. Doug Weller talk 16:52, 14 February 2023 (UTC)
thread_title:  Also see this about Sylvain Marechal's Almanach des Honnetes Gens which the government rejected as anti-religious