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Winter.

4. Snowy month. 5. Rainy month. 6. Windy month.

Spring.

7. Budding month. 8. Flowery month. 9. Pasture month.

Summer.

10. Harvest month. 11. Hot month. 12. Fruit month.^[1]

(f). Weeks were abolished, a tripartite division of the month being ordered instead, viz.:—

 1st day of month = Decadi.

10th day of„ month _„ Decadi I.

20th day of„ month _„ Decadi II.

and the other days were so many after a decadi, e.g., 19th = ninth day after Decadi I.

This Revolutionists' calendar never saw its sixteenth anniversary, for Napoleon ordered the re-adoption of the Julian-Gregorian style, as from and after 1st January, 1806.^[2] During its epoch it appeared, for instance, (a) on the title pages of publications, and (b) in legal deeds, the Bank of France being incorporated 13th Pluviôse, the year VIII., i.e., 13th February, 1800, I also observed some time ago that the French Press, in suggesting that the

1. The French for these months is as follows:—(beginning with the first autumnal month), Vendémaire, Brumaire, Fimaire, Nivôse, Pluviôse, Ventôse, Germinal, Floréal, Prairial, Messidor, Ther-midor, Fructidor.
2. This was one of the few beneficent acts of the Emperor.