Posical, the Positivist Calendar for Python

Re:Posical, the Positivist Calendar for Python by dfc on Friday April 18, 2014 @08:58PM (#7612107)

  > Comte set year 1 of his new calendar as the first year of the
  > truly modern age: 1789, the first year of the Great Crisis.

For me 1789 is the first year of the Great Constitutional Ratification. I did a quick google search for "great crisis" and came up empty. Google seems to be convinced that when I type "great crisis" I am looking for "Great Depression." What is the Great Crisis?

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Re:Posical, the Positivist Calendar for Python by ecma on Friday April 18, 2014 @09:06PM (#7612127)

It might be referring to la Grande Peur[0] (the Great Fear) which was the panic reaponse to the initial rebellions at the beginning of the French Revolution.

[0] en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Fear

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