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Numa did try to name and consolidate the winter months, but it wasn't very popular.

The months were for productive seasons, winter for everything else.

Also French revolutionaries ;-)

I'm French and occasionally like to (re)read about the revolution period and every time I come to the calendar stuff I can't help but think "Really? This was stuff we wanted to spend time on?"

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