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by jonathankoren 1396 days ago
Be glad La Terreur is over.

Today is nonidi 9 Fructidor in the year of the Republic CCXXX, celebrating liquorice, you churlish counter revolutionary!

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/French_Republican_calendar

Twitter bot that tells you day https://twitter.com/sansculotides

1 comments

The revolutionary calendar is separate from the Terror. In fact, it survived it by quite some time, being abolished by Napoleon in An XII.
I’m pretty sure Robespierre would take offense to the characterizations of the revolutionary calendar.

But whatever dude. Don’t lose your head over it.