Tienoven, Theun Pieter van; Glorieux, Ignace; Minnen, Joeri - In: Societies 3 (2013) 4, pp. 399-413
During the French Revolution and inspired by the Enlightenment, an attempt was made to replace the Gregorian calendar (which was based on ‘irrational’ overlapping cycles linked to religious celebrations) by the Republican calendar (which was based on ‘rational’ clearly nested cycles in...
