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By instituting a 10-day week, the French government exerted power over the Roman Catholic Church in her main area of influence: control of time.
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While the new calendar had always been opposed by the devout, a series of reforms under Napoleon Bonaparte began easing the enforcement of the new calendar. The new calendar was promoted as “rational” and “scientific”.
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