Charles-Gilbert Romme
French political leader
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development of French Republican calendar
- In calendar: The French republican calendar
…1793 the National Convention appointed Charles-Gilbert Romme, president of the committee of public instruction, to take charge of the reform. Technical matters were entrusted to the mathematicians Joseph-Louis Lagrange and Gaspard Monge and the renaming of the months to the Paris deputy to the convention, Philippe Fabre d’Églantine. The results…
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