A letter from the Rose Festival Committee in 1944 was a start to my adventures in the art of formal writing. I wrote my first story about the future of Women that Governed the planets I published under the title, Woman of the Year about a year ago. I wrote the story during man’s first moon landing having no idea of the movie titled the same. Traveling to Canada for vacation during the late sixties I received an award in the form of a scroll while riding on a ferry boat in Winnipeg. I asked why I was being awarded, the people said because I was a child who danced among adults. It was true, when the band played Ob La Di, Ob La Da, I couldn’t help but want to dance! I learned the customs there were different, where I wanted to learn how to speak French. Moving overseas the following year, I enrolled in a French class. Each dialogue I learned through writing the words created a simple conversation that usually described the customs of the native people. Ironically the teacher resembled Katherine Hepburn, who stared in Woman of the Year. I remember her red hair in the afternoon class where she let us eat sunflower seeds while we pronounced words in French as springtime birds chirped in the window. There was a film documentary of The Louvre that was shown in French class as well as in History & Art class. In history class I was interested with letters of documentations such as the Louisiana Purchase that was handwritten in French of the territory the United States bought from the French, having Spanish territory as well. I think it is a good example of how America transformed into a colony where the French calendar once was different. Each month was named according to harvest & weather. Starting in September, here is an outline of the months. ( without the accent marks ) Vendemiaire, grape harvest. Brumaire, month of mist. Frimaire, month of cold. Nivose, month of snow. Pluviose, month of rain. Ventose, month of Wind. Germinal, month of sprouts. Floreal, month of flowers. Prairial, month of meadows. Messidor, month of harvest. Thermidor, month of heat. Fructidor, month of fruits. The calendar was named, the French Republic Calendar or, Revolutionary & was evolved from the Egyptian & Mayan Calendar. It replaced the Gregorian Calendar from 1793 to 1805 with the Coronation of Napoleon who reverted it back to the Gregorian. During the twelve years of the Republic Calendar, clocks ticked to a 86.4 decimal minute, hours were 144 minutes. The Catholic Church invented the Rural Calendar that named each day of the Calendar after Saints. In contrast to that, Fabre d’Eglantine introduced naming the Days ending in zero were named after agriculture tools, days ending in five were named for animals. Remaining days were names of grains, pastures, trees, roots, flowers, fruits & minerals. Fabre’s calendar was part of the Republic Calendar. Imagine living during that time with the days arranged so. Your whole world would feel different! When I think of letter writing in the past, I vision a long sea voyage where diary ledgers were written to log the daily events. There was extra time to write that involved the dipping of quill ink in the light of candle lit lanterns. A steady hand of endurance upon a scroll of paper would write as waves swelled throughout the long night. Saint Valentine was a tortured priest who was associated with Bee keeping & healing that is remembered on February 14th. Possibly because a decree was written by Cardinal & Prince, Carlo Odescalchi to secure his remains along with a vial of his blood, to be kept in the Roman church to this day. It was a drastic time where preserving a holy body such as Saint Valentine would keep out the restrictions of the invading French Consul of Napoleon Bonaparte. There weren’t any Cupid arrows, chocolates or hearts, only the martyred remains sealed in a cabinet adorned with flowers. The following lines are listed the days of the months associated with the selected holy names given by the French Church..Find your birthday to see the Saint.
January 1 Jour de l'An [Ian]
January 2 Saint Basile
January 3 Sainte Geneviève
January 4 Saint Odilon
January 5 Saint Edouard
January 6 Saint Melaine
January 7 Saint Raymond
January 8 Saint Lucien
January 9 Sainte Alix
January 10 Saint Guillaume
January 11 Saint Paulin
January 12 Sainte Tatiana
January 13 Sainte Yvette
January 14 Sainte Nina
January 15 Saint RĂ©mi
January 16 Saint Marcel
January 17 Sainte Roseline
January 18 Sainte Prisca
January 19 Saint Marius
January 20 Saint SĂ©bastien
January 21 Sainte Agnès
January 22 Saint Vincent
January 23 Saint Barnard
January 24 Saint François
January 25 Saint Paul
January 26 Sainte Paule
January 27 Sainte Angèle
January 28 Saint Thomas
January 29 Saint Gildas
January 30 Sainte Martine
January 31 Sainte Marcelle
February 1 Sainte Ella
February 2 Saint Théophane
February 3 Saint Blaise
February 4 Sainte VĂ©ronique
February 5 Sainte Agathe
February 6 Saint Gaston
February 7 Sainte Eugénie
February 8 Sainte Jacqueline
February 9 Sainte Apolline
February 10 Saint Arnaud
February 11 Saint SĂ©verin
February 12 Saint FĂ©lix
February 13 Sainte BĂ©atrice
February 14 Saint Valentin
February 15 Saint Claude
February 16 Sainte Julienne
February 17 Saint Alexis
February 18 Sainte Bernadette
February 19 Saint Gabin
February 20 Sainte Aimée
February 21 Saint Damien
February 22 Sainte Isabelle
February 23 Saint Lazare
February 24 Saint Modeste
February 25 Saint Roméo
February 26 Saint Nestor
February 27 Sainte Honorine
February 28 Saint Romain
February 29 Saint Auguste
March 1 Saint Aubin
March 2 Saint Charles
March 3 Saint Gwenolé
March 4 Saint Casimir
March 5 Saint Olive
March 6 Sainte Colette
March 7 Sainte Félicité
March 8 Saint Jean
March 9 Sainte Françoise
March 10 Saint Vivien
March 11 Sainte Rosine
March 12 Sainte Justine
March 13 Saint Rodrigue
March 14 Sainte Mathilde
March 15 Sainte Louise
March 16 Sainte Bénédicte
March 17 Saint Patrick
March 18 Saint Cyrille
March 19 Saint Joseph
March 20 Saint Herbert
March 21 Sainte Clémence
March 22 Sainte LĂ©a
March 23 Saint Victorien
March 24 Sainte Catherine
March 25 Saint Humbert
March 26 Sainte Larissa
March 27 Saint Habib
March 28 Saint Gontran
March 29 Sainte Gwladys
March 30 Saint Amédée
March 31 Saint Benjamin
April 1 Saint Hugues
April 2 Sainte Sandrine
April 3 Saint Richard
April 4 Saint Isidore
April 5 Sainte Irène
April 6 Saint Marcellin
April 7 Saint Jean-Baptiste
April 8 Sainte Julie
April 9 Saint Gautier
April 10 Saint Fulbert
April 11 Saint Stanislas
April 12 Saint Jules 1er
April 13 Sainte Ida
April 14 Saint Maxime
April 15 Saint Paterne
April 16 Saint Benoit
April 17 Saint Etienne
April 18 Saint Parfait
April 19 Sainte Emma
April 20 Sainte Odette
April 21 Saint Anselme
April 22 Saint Alexandre
April 23 Saint Georges
April 24 Saint Fidèle
April 25 Saint Marc
April 26 Sainte Alida
April 27 Sainte Zita
April 28 Sainte Valérie
April 29 Sainte Catherine
April 30 Saint Robert
May 1 Saint Joseph
May 2 Saint Boris
May 3 Saint Jacques
May 4 Saint Sylvain
May 5 Sainte Judith
May 6 Sainte Prudence
May 7 Sainte Gisèle
May 8 Saint Désiré
May 9 Sainte PacĂ´me
May 10 Sainte Solange
May 11 Sainte Estelle
May 12 Saint Achille
May 13 Sainte Rolande
May 14 Saint Matthias
May 15 Sainte Denise
May 16 Saint Honoré
May 17 Saint Pascal
May 18 Saint Eric
May 19 Saint Yves
May 20 Saint Bernardin
May 21 Saint Constantin
May 22 Saint Emile
May 23 Saint Didier
May 24 Saint Donatien
May 25 Sainte Sophie
May 26 Saint BĂ©renger
May 27 Saint Augustin
May 28 Saint Germain
May 29 Saint Aymard
May 30 Saint Ferdinand
May 31 Sainte Perrine
June 1 Saint Justin
June 2 Sainte Blandine
June 3 Saint Charles
June 4 Sainte Clotilde
June 5 Saint Igor
June 6 Saint Norbert
June 7 Saint Gilbert
June 8 Saint MĂ©dard
June 9 Sainte Diane
June 10 Saint Landry
June 11 Saint Barnabé
June 12 Saint Guy
June 13 Saint Antoine
June 14 Saint Elisée
June 15 Sainte Germaine
June 16 Saint Jean-François
June 17 Saint Hervé
June 18 Saint LĂ©once
June 19 Saint Romuald
June 20 Saint Silvère
June 21 Saint Rodolphe
June 22 Saint Alban
June 23 Sainte Audrey
June 24 Saint Jean-Baptiste
June 25 Saint Prosper
June 26 Saint Anthelme
June 27 Saint Fernand
June 28 Saint Irénée
June 29 Saint Pierre
June 30 Saint Martial
July 1 Saint Thierry
July 2 Saint Martinien
July 3 Saint Thomas
July 4 Saint Florent
July 5 Saint Antoine-Marie
July 6 Sainte Marietta
July 7 Saint Raoul
July 8 Saint Thibaud
July 9 Sainte Amandine
July 10 Saint Ulric
July 11 Saint Benoart
July 12 Saint Olivier
July 13 Saint Henri
July 14 Saint Camille
July 15 Saint Donald
July 16 Sainte Elvire
July 17 Sainte Charlotte
July 18 Saint Frédéric
July 19 Saint Arsène
July 20 Sainte Marina
July 21 Saint Victor
July 22 Ste Marie-Madeleine
July 23 Sainte Brigitte
July 24 Sainte Christine
July 25 Saint Jacques
July 26 Sainte Anne
July 27 Sainte Nathalie
July 28 Saint Samson
July 29 Sainte Marthe
July 30 Sainte Juliette
July 31 Saint Ignace
August 1 St Alphonse-Marie
August 2 St Pierre-Julien
August 3 Sainte Lydie
August 4 Saint Jean-Marie
August 5 Saint Abel
August 6 Saint Octavien
August 7 Saint Gaétan
August 8 Saint Dominique
August 9 Saint Amour
August 10 Saint Laurent
August 11 Sainte Claire
August 12 Sainte Clarisse
August 13 Saint Hippolyte
August 14 Saint Evrard
August 15 Sainte Marie
August 16 Saint Armel
August 17 Saint Hyacinthe
August 18 Sainte Hélène
August 19 Saint Jean-Eudes
August 20 Saint Bernard
August 21 Saint Christophe
August 22 Saint Fabrice
August 23 Sainte Rose
August 24 Saint Barthélémy
August 25 Saint Louis
August 26 Sainte Natacha
August 27 Sainte Monique
August 28 Saint Augustin
August 29 Sainte Sabine
August 30 Saint Fiacre
August 31 Saint Aristide
September 1 Saint Gilles
September 2 Sainte Ingrid
September 3 Saint Grégoire
September 4 Sainte Rosalie
September 5 Sainte RaĂŻssa
September 6 Saint Bertrand
September 7 Sainte Reine
September 8 Saint Adrien
September 9 Saint Alain
September 10 Sainte Inès
September 11 Saint Adelphe
September 12 Saint Apollinaire
September 13 Saint Aimé
September 14 la Croix Glorieuse
September 15 Saint Roland
September 16 Sainte Edith
September 17 Saint Renaud
September 18 Sainte Nadège
September 19 Sainte Emilie
September 20 Saint Davy
September 21 Saint Matthieu
September 22 Saint Maurice
September 23 Saint Constant
September 24 Sainte Thècle
September 25 Saint Hermann
September 26 Sts CĂ´me et Damien
September 27 Saint Vincent
September 28 Saint Venceslas
September 29 Saint Michel
September 30 Saint JĂ©rĂ´me
October 1 Sainte Thérèse
October 2 Saint LĂ©ger
October 3 Saint GĂ©rard
October 4 Saint François
October 5 Sainte Fleur
October 6 Saint Bruno
October 7 Saint Serge
October 8 Sainte PĂ©lagie
October 9 Saint Denis
October 10 Saint Ghislain
October 11 Saint Firmin
October 12 Saint Wilfrid
October 13 Saint GĂ©raud
October 14 Saint Juste
October 15 Sainte Thérèse
October 16 Sainte Edwige
October 17 Saint Baudouin
October 18 Saint Luc
October 19 Saint René
October 20 Sainte Adeline
October 21 Sainte CĂ©line
October 22 Sainte Elodie
October 23 Saint Jean
October 24 Saint Florentin
October 25 Sainte Doria
October 26 Saint Dimitri
October 27 Sainte Emeline
October 28 Saint Simon
October 29 Saint Narcisse
October 30 Sainte Bienvenue
October 31 Saint Quentin
November 1 La Toussaint
November 2 Les DĂ©funts
November 3 Saint Hubert
November 4 Saint Charles
November 5 Sainte Sylvie
November 6 Sainte Bertille
November 7 Sainte Carine
November 8 Saint Geoffroy
November 9 Saint Théodore
November 10 Saint LĂ©on
November 11 Saint Martin
November 12 Saint Christian
November 13 Saint Brice
November 14 Saint Sidoine
November 15 Saint Albert
November 16 Sainte Marguerite
November 17 Sainte Elisabeth
November 18 Sainte Aude
November 19 Saint Tanguy
November 20 Saint Edmond
November 21 Saint Albert
November 22 Sainte CĂ©cile
November 23 Saint Clément
November 24 Sainte Flora
November 25 Sainte Catherine
November 26 Sainte Delphine
November 27 Saint SĂ©verin
November 28 Saint Jacques
November 29 Saint Saturnin
November 30 Saint André
December 1 Sainte Florence
December 2 Sainte Viviane
December 3 St François-Xavier
December 4 Sainte Barbara
December 5 Saint GĂ©rald
December 6 Saint Nicolas
December 7 Saint Ambroise
December 8 Sainte Elfie
December 9 Saint Pierre
December 10 Saint Romaric
December 11 Saint Daniel
December 12 Ste Jeanne-Françoise
December 13 Sainte Lucie
December 14 Sainte Odile
December 15 Sainte Ninon
December 16 Sainte Alice
December 17 Saint Gaël
December 18 Saint Gatien
December 19 Saint Urbain
December 20 Saint Théophile
December 21 Saint Pierre
December 22 Ste Françoise-Xavière
December 23 Saint Armand
December 24 Sainte Adèle
December 25 Jour de Noël
December 26 Saint Etienne
December 27 Saint Jean
December 28 Saints Innocents
December 29 Saint David
December 30 Saint Roger
December 31 Saint Sylvestre
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