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1789 CE: The day after the Storming of the Bastille, some French citizens begin dating letters as "the second day of freedom".
1792 CE: The First French Republic is established.
1793 CE: The French Republican calendar goes into effect.
1801 CE: The Concordat of 1801 restores the names of weekdays as they were under the Gregorian calendar.
1806 CE: The French Republican calendar is officially replaced with the Gregorian calendar in France, over 12 years after its adoption.
1871 CE: The French Republican calendar is briefly revived during the Paris Commune of 1871.