The reasons for the adoption of a new calendar in revolutionary France and analyze reactions to it in the period 1789 to 1806?

Answer 1

reasons for adoption:

1. breaking away from the Roman Catholic Church and it's "fanatical" holidays

2. a new era had begun, so they wanted to mark that with a new calendar

3. the Gregorian calendar had some continuity errors that they wanted to fix (the number of days in each month differed, etc)

reactions:

1. good - Tenth Days were more virtuous and pious than Sundays had been in the Ancien Regime; it had corrected errors in the Gregorian calendar; mostly only public officials used it, though

2. bad - 9 continuous days of labor was hard for peasants; calendar was "forced" on the people by radical Jacobins; calendar encouraged fanaticism of a different sort (instead of religious, it was republican);