The Calendar in Revolutionary France Perovic Hardback Cambridge University Press

The Calendar in Revolutionary FrancePerceptions of Time in Literature, Culture, Politics\nAuthor(s): Sanja Perovic\nFormat: Hardback\nPublisher: Cambridge University Press, United Kingdom\nImprint: Cambridge University Press\nISBN-13: 9781107025950, 978-1107025950\nSynopsis\nOne 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 Marchal, from the Enlightenment to the Napoleonic era, Sanja Perovic.