Sanja Perovic: 1 book
The Calendar in Revolutionary France
Perceptions of Time in Literature, Culture, Politics
Language: English
Release Date: August 27, 2012
One of the most unusual decisions of the leaders of the French Revolution - and one that had immense practical as well as symbolic impact - was to abandon customarily-accepted ways of calculating date and time to create a Revolutionary calendar. The experiment lasted from 1793 to 1805, and prompted...
