Today is the equinox, so the official start of Autumn, & in the short-lived French Revolutionary calendar, the start of the new year. And the day of grapes (each day was given the name of a produce, tool, animal or mineral). It has no bearing on real life, but I like to check which day it is in this calendar.
In RL, in France, we're still waiting for the new prime minister to form a government 😩
#majicmonday @Eggs
@xicanti, @Reggie, @lil1inblue
Today is the 233rd anniversary of the Baiser Lamourette (Lamourette Kissing), where priest and representative Lamourette enjoined his colleagues to make peace with each other after some stormy debates in Parliament. Hence the hugs and kisses portrayed in this ink drawing kept in the Louvre museum. I cannot picture the same thing happening today 😁
#readingispolitical
Today is the anniversary of the first abolition of slavery in France, unanimously declared on the 4th of February 1794 (16 pluviôse an II) by the Convention during the French Revolution, before being rescinded a few years later by Napoléon. I would have liked more details to be included in the tagged book, but Eric Hazan makes it clear that the abolition was imposed by Haitian slaves rather than gifted magnanimously from mainland France, so👍
A People's History of the French Revolution | 
Here are this week's days:
1 grapes
2 saffron
3 chestnut
4 autumn crocus
5 horse
6 small balsam
7 carrot
And then, because revolutionaries turned everything decimal, three more days, for a 10-day week (that one decimalisation never took off!):
amaranth
parsnip
tank
The calendar was thought up by a poet & it shows. I love the fact that names are seasonal.
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