Which month of the French Revolutionary calendar started in late March?
Germinal (French Republican Calendar) Germinal (French Republican Calendar) Germinal () was the seventh month in the French Republican Calendar. The month was named after the Latin word "germen", "germination". Germinal was the first month of the spring quarter ("mois de printemps"). It started March 21 or March 22, and ended April 19 or April 20. It follows Ventôse and precedes Floréal. In the context of the French Revolution, "Germinal" sometimes refers to the downfall and execution of the Indulgents, Georges Danton and Camille Desmoulins, which took place during Germinal of 1794, four months before the Thermidorian Reaction in which Robespierre himself was executed. The
French Republican calendar French Republican calendar The French Republican calendar (), also commonly called the French Revolutionary calendar ("calendrier révolutionnaire français"), was a calendar created and implemented during the French Revolution, and used by the French government for about 12 years from late 1793 to 1805, and for 18 days by the Paris Commune in 1871. The revolutionary system was designed in part to remove all religious and royalist influences from the calendar, and was part of a larger attempt at decimalisation in France (which also included decimal time of day, decimalisation of currency, and metrication). It was used in government records in