• Mubelotix
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    France tried such calendar in 1789 and 1871. We lost it when Jules Ferry executed all the communalists in Paris. Some people in France still use those calendars to show their support to revolutionary ideas

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      There are a few websites and twitter accounts that remind you that today is Nonidi, 29 Germinal of the year CCXXXII.

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        I own such a website and I can confirm that this date is right. French wikipedia though is wrong as it uses a bad simplication reform that was never voted