Decimalising Time: Calendar and Clocks in the French Revolution

Update: 2012-07-02

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Dr Matthew Shaw, British Library, talks about the extraordinary revisions of time measurement adopted in the French Revolution. Creative Commons Attribution-Non-Commercial-Share Alike 2.0 UK: England & Wales; http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/2.0/uk/

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Decimalising Time: Calendar and Clocks in the French Revolution

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Decimalising Time: Calendar and Clocks in the French Revolution

Matthew Shaw

Decimalising Time: Calendar and Clocks in the French Revolution