The French Revolutionary Calendar, a failed 18th-century attempt to remake society by radically restructuring time, offers a cautionary tale about the limits of imposing rational systems on entrenched cultural traditions.
It wasn't just the clock and the calendar that they changed. They discarded the Livre (pound) for the new currency of the Franc, changed the linear measurement from Pieds (feet) to metres and the direction of traffic from the left to the right. It truly was a time of Revolution - not the magazine!
It wasn't just the clock and the calendar that they changed. They discarded the Livre (pound) for the new currency of the Franc, changed the linear measurement from Pieds (feet) to metres and the direction of traffic from the left to the right. It truly was a time of Revolution - not the magazine!
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This was my first read on SDC, fascinating. I went around talking about it for the rest of the (10-hour) day.
So interesting! 😲
Fascinating! Reminded me of french history class in high school! Fucking French cunt thinks they could run the world 🤣