By the new calendar the year of 365 days was divided into twelve months of thirty days each, every month being divided into three periods of ten days, each of which were called _decades_, and the tenth, or last, day of each decade being a day of rest. It was also proposed to divide the day on the decimal system, but this arrangement was found to be highly inconvenient and it was never put into practice. Five days of the 365 still remained to be dealt with, and these were set aside for national festivals and holidays and were called _Sans-culottides_. They were to fall at the end of the year, i.e. on the five days between the 17th and the 21st of September inclusive, and were called the festivals of virtue, of genius, of labour, of opinion and of rewards. A similar course was adopted with regard to the extra day which occurred once in every four years, but the first of these was to fall in the year III., i.e. in 1795, and not in 1796, the leap year in the Gregorian calendar. This day was set apart for the festival of the Revolution and was to be the last of the _Sans-culottides_. Each period of four years was to be called a _Franciade_. +----------------------------------+----------------+---------------+--------------+---------------+----------------+-----------------+---------------+ | AN II. | AN III. | AN IV. | AN V. | AN VI. | AN VII. | AN VIII. | AN IX. | | 1793-1794 | 1794-1795. | 1795-1796. | 1796-1797. | 1797-1798. | 1798-1799. | 1799-1800. | 1800-1801. | +-----------------+----------------+----------------+---------------+--------------+---------------+----------------+-----------------+---------------+ | 1 Vendemiaire | 22 Sept. 1793 | 22 Sept. 1794 | 23 Sept. 1795 | 22 Sept. 1796| 22 Sept. 1797 | 22 Sept. 1798 | 23 Sept. 1799 | 23 Sept. 1800 | | 1 Brumaire | 22 Oct. " | 22 Oct. " | 23 Oct. " | 22 Oct. " | 22 Oct. " | 22 Oct. " | 23 Oct. " | 23 Oct. " | | 1 Frimaire | 21 Nov. " | 21 Nov. " | 22 Nov. " | 21 Nov. " | 21 Nov. " | 21 Nov. " | 22 Nov. " | 22 Nov. " | | 1 Nivose | 21 Dec. " | 21 Dec. " | 22 Dec. " | 21 Dec. " | 21 Dec. " | 21 Dec. " | 22 Dec. " | 22 Dec. " | | 1 Pluviose | 20 Janv. 1794 | 20 Janv. 1795 | 21 Janv. 1796 | 20 Janv. 1797| 20 Janv. 1798 | 20 Janv. 1799 | 21 Janv. 1800 | 21 Janv. 1801 | | 1 Ventose | 19 Fevr. " | 19 Fevr. " | 20 Fevr. " | 19 Fevr. " | 19 Fev. " | 19 Fev. " | 20 Fev. " | 20 Fev. " | | 1 Germinal | 21 Mars " | 21 Mars " | 21 Mars " | 21 Mars " | 1 Mars " | 21 Mars " | 22 Mars " | 22 Mars " | | 1 Floreal | 20 Avr. " | 20 Avr. " | 20 Avr. " | 20 Avr. " | 20 Avr. " | 20 Avr. " | 21 Avr. " | 21 Avr.