Jour de la Révolution
Le jour de gloire est arrivé! Yes, it’s the leap-year day in the arithmetical version of the French Revolutionary Calendar that this blogsite enjoys thanks to the expert engineering of Steve over at Very True Things.
Phersu has noted the occasion, too in a footnote to a post from earlier today:
(Via Portique virtuel, qui rappelle qu’aujourd’hui est dans une version simplifiée et homogénéisée au calendrier grégorien du calendrier de Fabre d’Eglantine le “Jour de la révolution” de l’An CCXII – le Jour de la Révolution est un jour qui n’existe que les années bissextiles, toutes les “Franciades” de quatre ans, le dernier “jour complémentaire” de l’année, demain nous serons le 1er Vendémiaire An 213 après la proclamation de la Ière République).
I couldn’t put it better myself.I’ve always maintained that the EU made the wrong choice when it embraced the French Revolutionary Metric System (“The Revolution has given the People the Metre!”) but rejected the French Revolutionary Calendar. Clearly the way forward is to combine old English weights and measures with the harmonious enjoyment of of the passage of time that the Republican Calendar makes possible.
But I suspect I’m still in a minority on this one.