22, will have to be _reduced by one_, owing to the intercalation of Feb.

29, which is not compensated for until the end of the republican year.
The matter is further complicated by the fact that the republicans reckoned An VIII as a leap year, though it is not one in the Gregorian Calendar.

Hence that year ended on Sept.

22, and An IX and succeeding years began on Sept.23.Consequently in the above table of months the numbers of all days from Vendemiaire 1, An IX (Sept.

23, 1800), to Nivose 10, An XIV (Dec.