e, present to the reader.
For the Romme Calendar, in so many Newspapers, Memoirs, Public Acts, has
stamped itself deep into that section of Time: a New Era that lasts some
Twelve years and odd is not to be despised. Let the reader, therefore,
with such ground-scheme, help himself, where needful, out of New-style
into Old-style, called also 'slave-style, stile-esclave;'--whereof we,
in these pages, shall as much as possible use the latter only.

September 22nd of 1792 is Vendemiaire 1st of Year One, and the new
months are all of 30 days each; therefore:

To the number of the We have the number of the
day in Add day in Days

Vendemiaire 21 September 30
Brumaire 21 October 31
Frimaire 20 November 30

Nivose 20 December 31
Pluviose 19 January 31
Ventose 18 February 28

Germinal 20 March 31
Floreal 19 April 30
Prairial 19 May 31

Messidor 18 June 30
Thermidor 18 July 31
Fructidor 17 August 31

There are 5 Sansculottides, and in leap-year a sixth, to be added at the
end of Fructidor.

The New Calendar ceased on the 1st of January 1806. (See Choix des
Rapports, xiii. 83-99; xix. 199.)

Thus with new Feast of Pikes, and New Era or New Calendar, did France
accept her New Constitution: the most Democratic Constitution ever
committed to paper. How it will work in practice? Patriot Deputations
from time to time solicit fruition of it; that it be set a-going.
Always, however, this seems questionable; for the moment, unsuitable.
Till, in some weeks, Salut Public, through the organ of Saint-Just,
makes report, that, in the present alarming circumstances, the state of
France is Revolutionary; that her 'Government must be Revolutionary till
the Peace!' Solely as Paper, then, and as a Hope, must this poor New
Constitution exist;--in which shape we may conceive it lying; even now,
with an infinity of other things, in that Limbo near the Moon. Further
than paper it never got, nor ever will get.