In 1793 the leaders of the French Revolution produced a new calendar divided into three ten-day decades. 10 Napoleon Bonaparte, The Napoleon Calendar: A Quotation from the Works.Atheistic revolutionaries tried, unsuccessfully, to get rid of the seven-day week. The calendar was divided into twelve months of thirty days each, leaving five days (six in leap years) over at the end of the last month.Long before the Beatles invaded America, a rock star took Europe by storm as part of the Revolutionary War: Benjamin Franklin.at Arcole during the French Revolution as Austrian soldiers failed to shoot him. Invented by a committee led by Fabre d'glantine, it was adopted by the Convention in October, 1793. Perhaps the most famous is the French Revolutionary Calendar.
Franklin was seen in paintings, engravings, medallions, rings, snuffboxes and hats.Franklin made himself part of the upper society in France using his charm, wit, and learning, despite his struggles with the native language. Images of Franklin, wearing a fur cap instead of a wig, were commonplace. Instead, Franklin stayed in France until 1785 in a critical role as one of America’s first significant diplomats.The French opened Franklin with open arms, and he became a pop culture icon.
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