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The Calendar in Revolutionary France

2012-08-27 Literary Criticism
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Release : 2012-08-27
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Book Synopsis The Calendar in Revolutionary France by : Sanja Perovic

Download or read book The Calendar in Revolutionary France written by Sanja Perovic. This book was released on 2012-08-27. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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 all sorts of questions about the nature of time, ways of measuring it and its relationship to individual, community, communication and creative life. This study traces the course of the Revolutionary Calendar, from its cultural origins to its decline and fall. Tracing the parallel stories of the calendar and the literary genius of its creator, Sylvain Maréchal, from the Enlightenment to the Napoleonic era, Sanja Perovic reconsiders the status of the French Revolution as the purported 'origin' of modernity, the modern experience of time, and the relationship between the imagination and political action.

Time and the French Revolution

2011 History
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Release : 2011
Genre : History
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Book Synopsis Time and the French Revolution by : Matthew John Shaw

Download or read book Time and the French Revolution written by Matthew John Shaw. This book was released on 2011. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A history of the innovation and effects of the French Republican Calendar. The French Republican Calendar was perhaps the boldest of all the reforms undertaken in Revolutionary France. Introduced in 1793 and used until 1806, the Calendar not only reformed the weeks and months of the year, but decimalisedthe hours of the day and dated the year from the beginning of the French Republic. This book not only provides a history of the calendar, but places it in the context of eighteenth-century time-consciousness, arguing that the French were adept at working within several systems of time-keeping, whether that of the Church, civil society, or the rhythms of the seasons. Developments in time-keeping technology and changes in working patterns challenged early-modern temporalities, and the new calendar can also be viewed as a step on the path toward a more modern conception of time. In this context, the creation of the calendar is viewed not just as an aspect of the broader republican programme of social, political and cultural reform, but as a reflection of a broader interest in time and the culmination of several generations' concern with how society should be policed. Matthew Shaw is a curatorat the British Library, London.

French Revolutionary Calendar

1982 Calendar
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Release : 1982
Genre : Calendar
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Book Synopsis French Revolutionary Calendar by : James Monaco

Download or read book French Revolutionary Calendar written by James Monaco. This book was released on 1982. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: First published in YR 190 (1982 AD), this reproduction of the unusual calendar introduced by the French Revolution won awards for the graphics by David Lindroth. There are 12 equal months of thirty days, each divided into three "weeks" of ten days each. And, yes, you'll find a correlation to the Gregorian calendar--so you can keep track of the rest of the world!

The Calendar in Revolutionary France

2012-08-27 History
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Book Synopsis The Calendar in Revolutionary France by : Sanja Perovic

Download or read book The Calendar in Revolutionary France written by Sanja Perovic. This book was released on 2012-08-27. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This study explores the reinvention of the calendar during the French Revolution and its long-lasting cultural effects.

Teaching Representations of the French Revolution

2019-08-01 Language Arts & Disciplines
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Release : 2019-08-01
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Book Synopsis Teaching Representations of the French Revolution by : Julia Douthwaite Viglione

Download or read book Teaching Representations of the French Revolution written by Julia Douthwaite Viglione. This book was released on 2019-08-01. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In many ways the French Revolution--a series of revolutions, in fact, whose end has arguably not yet arrived--is modernity in action. Beginning in reform, it blossomed into wholesale attempts to remake society, uprooting the clergy and aristocracy, valorizing mass movements, and setting secular ideologies, including nationalism, in motion. Unusually manifold and complicated, the revolution affords many teaching opportunities and challenges. This volume helps instructors seeking to connect developments today--terrorism, propaganda, extremism--with the events that began in 1789, contextualizing for students a world that seems always unmoored and in crisis. The volume supports the teaching of the revolution's ongoing project across geographic areas (from Haiti, Latin America, and New Orleans to Spain, Germany, and Greece), governing ideologies (human rights, secularism, liberty), and literatures (from well-known to newly rediscovered texts). Interdisciplinary, intercultural, and insurgent, the volume has an energy that reflects its subject.

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