At 08:01 PM 8/20/2002 -0600, you wrote: >The month of Messidor and the eleventh year of the French Republic refer to >what is called the "Republican Calendar", that's a Calendar instituted >following the French Revolution but which lasted only some years. The >months of this calendar didn't have the same length as our months etc. so I >never tried to remember all this stuff... :-) but I know websites where you >can calculate those dates to get them in our calendar dates but those sites >are either in French or in German... so you better make a search on internet >about the "Republican Calendar" and I'm sure you're going to find a site >where you can make the conversion in English There is a neat little program which is freeware called Days. It will convert any dates between the Gregorian, Julian and Republican calendar as well as feast days which some times appear on German documents. You can download it at http://octhygesen.homepage.dk/EngDage.html Pam [email protected] http://www.geocities.com/Heartland/Woods/6771/