Frimaire

Frimaire (from the French ‘frimas’, hoarfrost)


Frimaire was the name given to the period between 21-23 November to 21-23 December.


The French Revolutionary Calendar (or Republican Calendar) was officially adopted in France on October 24, 1793 and abolished on 1 January 1806 by Emperor Napoleon I. It was used again briefly during under the Paris Commune in 1871. The French also established a new clock, in which the day was divided in ten hours of a hundred minutes of a hundred seconds - exactly 100,000 seconds per day.


I couldn't find any frosty images to capture today, but thought this icy blue-grey sky and (almost) bare branches depict the word 'frimaire' quite well!