French: 17 frimaire de l’an IIEnglish translation: 7 December, 1793, according to the Revolutionary Calendar. 
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| GLOSSARY ENTRY (DERIVED FROM QUESTION BELOW) | | French term or phrase: | 17 frimaire de l’an II | | English translation: | 7 December, 1793, according to the Revolutionary Calendar. | | Entered by: | Christopher Crockett |
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History | | French term or phrase: 17 frimaire de l’an II | | Une explosion détruisit les bâtiments le *17 frimaire de l'an II* |
| | | 7 December, 1793 | Explanation:
According to the Revolutionary Calendar.
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Note added at 12 mins (2004-05-18 19:51:24 GMT)
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The diversity of answers is an indication of why it is that this new calendar never really caught on. Can you imagine how hard it would be to figure this out in the daze before the WWW?
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Note added at 15 mins (2004-05-18 19:54:30 GMT)
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Come to think about it, it\'s amazing that the Bourbons aren\'t still in power.
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Note added at 18 hrs 16 mins (2004-05-19 13:55:25 GMT)
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Mary Wilburn makes a good point, and the way to go in the translation depends upon what the context requires --perhaps both:
\"An explosion destroyed the buildings on \'17 frimaire de l’an II\', i.e., the seventeenth day of the month of frimaire in the second year of the French revolutionary calendar, which would be 7 December, 1793 in our own reactionary calendar.\" [I\'m stealing Mary\'s answer, obviously.]
Something like that. A bit wordy, but complete.
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Note to Julie, et al.
I, too, initially misread the site you mention, http://pchapelin.free.fr/calrep/calen2.htm --but, if you look closely, the line marked Frimaire/Novembre changes to De[cembre] 1 on the 11th day of that month.
I.e., 10 Frimaire corresponds to 30 November in the old calendar, 11 Frimaire to 1 December.
They didn\'t just rename the months (and the days, and the seasons), they totally reworked the whole damned calendar.
See?
It\'s easy.
And very, very \"rational\". |
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Christopher Crockett
United States
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| December 17 ,1774
Explanation:
French revolutionary calendar
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Excuse me, actually it\'s December 7, 1794. It\'s a confusing calendar!
Reference: http://www.napoleonseries.com/reference/political/revcalenda...
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| 7 décembre 1793
Explanation:
Calendrier révolutionnaire :-)
C'est tout simple :-)
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| November 7, 1793
Explanation:
French republican calendar (revolution).
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Oops. Wrong calculation. 17 Frimaire is December 7 1793. Christopher is right.
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| & december 1793
Explanation:
During the French revolution, the revolutionaries adopted a different calendar.
starting 22-09-1792
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sorry, should read: 7 december
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Note added at 19 mins (2004-05-18 19:58:46 GMT)
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should read:
7 December
Reference: http://www.de-cujus.com/calendriers/calendrier3.html
| Hacene
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Native speaker of:  French
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| 27 November 1793
Explanation:
Vous pouvez consulter le Tableau de concordance entre le Calendrier républicain et le Calendrier grégorien au lien suivant :
http://pchapelin.free.fr/calrep/calen2.htm
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The link is correct... but my reading of the calendar is wrong.
It should be \"7 Novembre 1793\".
François has it all figured out... :-)
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...or maybe not.
I\'ll let you guys battle it out. I can\'t wait to know the answer to this one!
| Julie Roy
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Explanation:
More reasons why the project never caught on:
"Each month was divided up into 3 equal decades of 10 days each, and the day was divided up into 10 decimal hours.
Each hour contained 100 minutes and each minute 100 seconds. Each day in the 3 decades had its own name, as in days of the week, and the 10th day, Decadi, was a day of rest when shops and businesses had to close. It became a criminal offence for a shop to close on the old Sunday..."
http://www.hms.org.uk/nelsonsnavyrevcalend.htm
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| seventeenth day of the month of frimaire in the second year of the French revolutionary calendar
Explanation:
Translation does not require restatement of the date in terms of another calendar. Like the modern reader of the French, the reader in English can/will "google" or otherwise find "frimaire" and with it "l'an II." The restatement is a fun exercise, but not an indicated one.
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