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Shortly after 250 AD, his grave became a shrine and a pilgrimage centre, with the building of the Abbey of Saint Denis, and the settlement was renamed Saint-Denis. In 1793, during the French Revolution, under the dictatorship of Robespierre, Saint-Denis was renamed Franciade in a gesture of rejection of religion
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During the Revolution, every ecclesiastical establishment in Saint-Denis closed its doors, and in 1793 the town was renamed Franciade. In October of the same year, the bodies of the kings of France buried in the basilica were exhumed, and the bones thrown into two common graves dug in the cemetery north of the church. In 1806, Napoleon I ...
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All the cities you mention changed their names during the Revolution before returning to their original names during the Restauration. Saint-Nazaire was renamed Port-Nazaire, Saint-Etienne became Armeville. Saint-Denis became La Franciade. The revolutionary toponyms only existed for a short time (from 1793 to the Restauration).
Franciade. In the French Republican calendar, the franciade was the period of four years at the end of which it was necessary to add a day to the calendar year to keep it aligned with the solar year (c. 365 days). The franciade was defined in 1793 in article 10 of the Décret de la Convention nationale portant sur la création du calendrier ...
Saint-Denis is a city north of Paris, France. In 1793, during the French Revolution, it was briefly renamed Franciade to show a rejection of religion, but reverted to its original name in 1803. Reply reply
Before the Revolution and its anti-religious sentiment, Franciade was once called Saint-Denis. According to legend, during the 3rd century, Saint Denis was beheaded and martyred in Montmartre, which didn't not stop him from walking with his disembodied head under his arm to the village of Catolacus where he finally collapsed and was buried. This site would become known as Saint-Denis. Famous ...
Saint-Denis, the northern suburb of Paris, was called “Franciade“, a technical term of the French Republican calendar that refers to the four-year period at the end of which one has to add a day to keep the calendar in line with the solar year…
