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The re- establishment of the ancient calendar had no other object than to bring us into harmony with the rest of Europe on a point so closely connected with daily transactions, which were much embarrassed by the decadary calendar. Bonaparte at length, however, consented to hear Mass, and St. Cloud was the place where this ancient usage was first re-established.
Afterwards they here celebrated the decadary feasts, promulgated laws, pronounced marriages, and even gave a great breakfast to the conscripts of the year VII, the first who went under that denomination. At last it was restored to its primitive use, the only one worthy of it, for we may say of Saint-Ouen: Hic vere est domus Dei. The ancient abbey-house of Saint-Ouen was demolished, in 1816.
The re-establishment of the ancient calendar had no other object than to bring us into harmony with the rest of Europe on a point so closely connected with daily transactions, which were much embarrassed by the decadary calendar. Bonaparte at length, however, consented to hear Mass, and St. Cloud was the place where this ancient usage was first re-established.
Fifteen principal churches, besides the Pantheon, the Invalides, Val-de-Grace, the Sorbonne, and a few others, were preserved as national temples, intended for the celebration of decadary fetes, and for a time rendered common to every sort of worship.
The re-establishment of the ancient calendar had no other object than to bring us into harmony with the rest of Europe on a point so closely connected with daily transactions, which were much embarrassed by the decadary calendar. Bonaparte at length, however, consented to hear Mass, and St. Cloud was the place where this ancient usage was first re-established.
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