The Calendar in Revolutionary France

Sanja Perovic is Lecturer in the French Department at King's College London.

• Introduction; 1. From myth to lived experience: the literary and cultural origins of the revolutionary calendar; 2. Between the volcano and the sun: Sylvain Maréchal against his time; 3. History and nature: the double origins of Republican time; 4. Death by volcano: revolutionary terror and the problem of year II; 5. Unenthusiastic memory: imagining the festive calendar; 6. Perishable Enlightenment: wearing out the calendar; 7. The end of the lyrical Revolution and the calendar's piecemeal decline; Conclusion; Chronology of Gregorian and Republican calendars; Bibliography; Index.

'The Calendar in Revolutionary France is an exhilarating book that invites one to think about the calendar and its history in ways that move between different time scales and that complicate the terms through which we imagine historical periodization altogether.' Deborah Elise White, Nineteenth-Century French Studies