Why did the Jacobins institute a new calendar in October 1793?
A) The Julian calendar (named after Julius Caesar) sounded too royalist.
B) The Gregorian calendar (named after Pope Gregory XIII) sounded too Catholic.
C) The existing calendar was thirteen days behind.
D) The revolutionaries wanted to destroy the Old Regime and build a new order.
E) It was an attempt to make people forget about the past.
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