French Revolutionary Calendar - what are you?

[zedr]

I've been researching the French Revolution for work, and for the first time have properly read about the Republican Calendar. It's all a bit off the wall but I love the pastoral/rural aspect of the calendar. In particular how every day has it's own animal, plant, mineral or tool associated to it. I've started asking pals what their birthdays are and what their corresponding rural thing is when out and its always fun seeing what connections people draw.

Eg I'm born on the 11th Vendemiarie so I'm a pomme de terre, both my favourite veg to eat and grow! Also, quite boring, stubborn and lasts best when covered in dirt.

What's your veg/animal/mineral and does it match you?

(Hope this is the right board to post in! Assumed it fits best with History)

 

[maomao]

I'm a handcart so at least I'm equipped for my journey to hell.

 

[belboid]

I'm a handcart so at least I'm equipped for my journey to hell.

I'm sulphur, so I think I'm already there

 

[Puddy_Tat]

 

[danny la rouge]

I’m a filbert. Of which I had never heard. It’s a species of hazel in the birch family Betulaceae, native to southeastern Europe and southwestern Asia, from the Balkans to Ordu in Turkey.

 

[belboid]

Why couldn't I be born on the Fourth of July? I'd have no alternative but to smoke then.

 

[Sue]

I'm a handcart so at least I'm equipped for my journey to hell.

Or for removing the guillotined bodies of your enemies.

 

[gentlegreen]

I'm just a tondeuse - you can tell me by the way I walk ...

 

[QueenOfGoths]

Black Salsify

Pseudopodospermum hispanicum, commonly known as black salsify or Spanish salsify, also known as black oyster plant, serpent root, viper's herb, viper's grass or simply scorzonera

I think that shall be my nom de plume from now on!!

 

[Saul Goodman]

Question 2:
What was the name of your first pet?

Question 3:
What was your mother's maiden name?

 

[Puddy_Tat]

Question 2:
What was the name of your first pet?

Question 3:
What was your mother's maiden name?

hmm

but since most peoples' birthdays are recorded on urban and subject of an annual birthday thread, hardly a secret...

 

[zedr]

Question 2:
What was the name of your first pet?

Question 3:
What was your mother's maiden name?

You're welcome to PM me your bank details privately if you don't want to post them publicly.

 

[Saul Goodman]

hmm

but since most peoples' birthdays are recorded on urban and subject of an annual birthday thread, hardly a secret...

Indeed, which is why I never use my real birthday on any website.

 

[Pickman's model]

..

 

[scifisam]

I'm a parsnip. That means only weirdos don't like me.

 

[ska invita]

Joke already done, deleted.
I can't see the calendar on the wiki link though

 

[zedr]

Joke already done, deleted.
I can't see the calendar on the wiki link though

You have to scroll down to the 'rural calendar' section.

 

[hitmouse]

Sure I remember someone or other doing poems inspired by the French revolutionary calendar and I think the days thing in particular, buggered if I can remember who it was though.

 

[MickiQ]

My birthday is the 22nd Brumaire and I'm apparently a type of hawthorn

 

[belboid]

Sure I remember someone or other doing poems inspired by the French revolutionary calendar and I think the days thing in particular, buggered if I can remember who it was though.

Zoe Skoulding, I would guess.

A Revolutionary Calendar by Zoë Skoulding - The Poetry Book Society

The French Republican Calendar, in use from 1793 to 1805 and revived briefly during the Paris Commune of 1871, was an effort to secularise time and return symbolic power to the rural worker. The poet Fabre d’Églantine renamed the months after seasons, while each day, instead of being dedicated...

www.poetrybooks.co.uk

 

[hitmouse]

Zoe Skoulding, I would guess.

A Revolutionary Calendar by Zoë Skoulding - The Poetry Book Society

The French Republican Calendar, in use from 1793 to 1805 and revived briefly during the Paris Commune of 1871, was an effort to secularise time and return symbolic power to the rural worker. The poet Fabre d’Églantine renamed the months after seasons, while each day, instead of being dedicated...

www.poetrybooks.co.uk

Well identified!

 

[vanya]

Argile (Clay)

 

[danny la rouge]

Indeed, which is why I never use my real birthday on any website.

Happy birthday!

 

[surreybrowncap]

I'm a head with a powdered wig looking forlornly into a basket..

 

[dessiato]

21 Thlaspi

 

[Jammy smears]

Hemlock!

 

[iona]

Being wet makes me hard

(I'm an alder)

 

[andysays]

I'm a dense, highly viscous, petroleum-based hydrocarbon that is found in deposits such as oil sands and pitch lakes (natural) or is obtained as a residue of the distillation of crude oil (refined).

Bitumen

 

[scifisam]

Today is puffball!

 

[krink]

What about the 18th August to 21st September?