Notes for Michel Hottua: His birth was recorded in the birth records of Feulen Luxembourg on 17 Frimaire pour l'an 8. This translates into Dec 8, 1799.
The following text was copied from the Luxembourg-American Genealogical web site at http://www.eskimo.com/%7Elisanne/frenchrep.htm maintained by Lisa Oberg
Following the Revolution, France adopted a reformed calendar called the French Republican or Revolutionary calendar, to replace the Gregorian calendar. It consisted of ten day weeks (decades) and twelve months of thirty days. Five or six feast days remained at the end of each year and these were dedicated to vacations and celebrations. The calendar was calculated from 22 September 1792, the day the Republic was first proclaimed.
Revolutionary France was eager to overthrow the oppression of church and king and adopted descriptive calendar names reflecting reason, science and nature. The calendar was devoid of the religious and mythological connotations of the Gregorian calendar.
The months were called Vendémiaire (vintage), Brumaire (mist), Frimaire (frost), Nivôse (snow), Pluviôse (rain), Ventôse (wind), Germinal (sprouting time), Floréal (blossom), Prairial (meadow), Messidor (harvest), Thermidor (heat), and Fructidor (fruit). The "complementary" or feast days at the end of the year were named in honor of Virtue, Genius, Labor, Opinion and Rewards. During leap year the additional day was called Revolution.
Note the four different endings to the names of the months. Each set of three months made up a season; -aire (fall), -ôse (winter), -al (spring) and -or (summer). Because the calendar was first calcuated from the fall equinox of 1792, each season also began on the equinox or solstice.
The Republican calendar was in use from 1793 through 1805 in France and areas under French rule including Belgium, Luxembourg and parts of Germany, the Netherlands, and Italy . The Grand Duchy of Luxembourg was annexed to France as the département des Forêts, or "Forest Department" in 1795. France (and Luxembourg) returned to the Gregorian calendar on January 1, 1806, under Napoléon Bonaparte.
More About Michel Hottua and Christina Lambert: Marriage: February 26, 1825, Niedermertzig, Luxembourg.229, 230
Children of Michel Hottua and Christina Lambert are:
Elisabetha Hottua, b. December 25, 1825, Niederfeulen, Luxembourg231, d. date unknown.
Jakob Hottua, b. December 28, 1828, Niederfeulen, Luxembourg231, d. date unknown.
Elisabetha Hottua, b. January 19, 1831, Niederfeulen, Luxembourg231, d. date unknown.
Michel Hottua (b. December 06, 1799, d. date unknown)
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