French Republican Calendar - Days of The Year

Days of The Year

Instead of most days having an associated saint as in the Roman Catholic calendar of saints, each day has an animal (days ending in 5), a tool (days ending in 0) or else a plant or mineral (all other days).

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Famous quotes containing the words days of, days and/or year:

    Oh, talk not to me of a name great in story—
    The days of our youth are the days of our glory;
    George Gordon Noel Byron (1788–1824)

    When wilt thou leave fighting o’ days and foining o’ nights, and begin to patch up thine old body for heaven?
    William Shakespeare (1564–1616)

    ... breaks ancestrally each year into
    Regenerate union. Let it always be there.
    Philip Larkin (1922–1986)