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It was called the French Republican Calendar. Didn’t last very long.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/French_Republican_calendar
That's extremely elegant. Plus if you have days of rest every first, fifth and tenth day of the week then you have 3 or 4 days of work in a row at a time (of course im sure at the time they were far more stingy with days of rest)