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Updated: May 26, 2025
When the decree of the Convention which ordered the adoption of the Republican calendar was published, he remarked: "They have done finely; but they have to fight two enemies who never yield, the beard, and the white shirt." The truth is, the interval from one decadi to another was too long for the working-classes, and for all those who were constantly occupied.
We will close the churches, demolish the steeples, melt down the bells, send all sacred vessels to the Mint, smash the images of the saints, desecrate relics, prohibit religious burials, impose the civil burial, prescribe rest during the decadi and labor on Sundays. No exception whatever.
On holidays everybody will bring his provisions down into the street and eat as one family with his neighbor; on decadi all are to sing and dance together, pell-mell, in the temple of the Supreme being.
Every moment that the First Consul could snatch from affairs of state he passed at Malmaison. The evening of each decadii A decade of ten days was substituted for the week; and the decadi, or tenth day, took the place of the Sabbath. was a time of expectation and joy at the chateau.
The day filed for the translation of the seat of government was the 30th Pluviose, the previous day having been selected for publishing the account of the votes taken for the acceptance of the new Constitution. He had, besides, caused the insertion in the 'Moniteur' of the eulogy on Washington, pronounced, by M. de Fontanes, the decadi preceding, to be delayed for ten days.
The rest of labour ought to be gay; and the gladness I have felt in France on a Sunday, or Decadi, which I caught from the faces around me, was a sentiment more truly religious than all the stupid stillness which the streets of London ever inspired where the Sabbath is so decorously observed.
Every moment that the First Consul could snatch from affairs of state he passed at Malmaison. The evening of each decadii A decade of ten days was substituted for the week; and the decadi, or tenth day, took the place of the Sabbath. was a time of expectation and joy at the chateau.
The day filed for the translation of the seat of government was the 30th Pluviose, the previous day having been selected for publishing the account of the votes taken for the acceptance of the new Constitution. He had, besides, caused the insertion in the 'Moniteur' of the eulogy on Washington, pronounced, by M. de Fontanes, the decadi preceding, to be delayed for ten days.
The contrast was sufficiently strong to the scene from which I had just returned; yet this was the land of contrasts. To my look of surprise, the turnkey who attended me answered "Perhaps you have forgotten that this is Decadi, and on this night we always have our masquerade.
When the decree of the Convention which ordered the adoption of the Republican calendar was published, he remarked: "They have done finely; but they have to fight two enemies who never yield, the beard, and the white shirt." The truth is, the interval from one decadi to another was too long for the working-classes, and for all those who were constantly occupied.
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