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The
Edict of Roussillon
(
French
:
Edit de Roussillon
) was a 1564
edict
decreeing that in
France
the year would begin on 1 January.
During a trip to various parts of his kingdom, the King of France,
Charles IX
, found that depending on the
diocese
, the year began either at
Christmas
(at
Lyon
, for instance) or on 25 March (as at
Vienne
), on 1 March, or at
Easter
.
In order to standardise the date for the new year in the entire kingdom, he added an article to an edict given at
Paris
in January 1563 which he promulgated at
Roussillon
on 9 August 1564. It started being applied on 1 January 1567.
The 42 articles that comprised this edict concerned justice, except the last four, added during the king's stay at Roussillon. Article 39 ruled that henceforth every year would start on 1 January.
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References
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- Dictionnaire Historique de la France
, by
Ludovic Lalanne
, p. 84, vol. 1, 1877, Reprinted by Burt Franklin, New York, 1968.
- The New American Cyclopaedia: A Popular Dictionary of General Knowledge
, p. 493, ed. George Ripley, Charles A. Dana. D. Appleton and Company, 1858.
- Le calendrier gregorien en France by Rodolphe Audette