Albert d'Alby (1802)

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Etrennes nouvelles de l'horoscope de l'homme et de la femme" By M. G. D. R., published by G. Quinet, Libraire, dans la Salle du Palaise, using an expanded piquet set of 36 cards.

It is available online here:
https://books.google.co.uk/books?id...KAhXKXRQKHXvaAbIQuwUIJTAA#v=onepage&q&f=false

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In the later part it speaks of a Calendrier des Samaritains ... could it be, that this text of 1788 somehow belonged to the Calendar discussion, which a few years later caused the invention of the New (only short-living) French calendar?

Sylvain Maréchal, co-author of Jacques Grasset Saint-Sauveur between 1784-93, has this detail in his biography:
His critique of both religion and political absolutism (Livre échappé du déluge - "Book Salvaged from the Flood", a parody of the Bible) and his atheism caused him to lose his position at the College; Maréchal was forced to live off his literary output. In 1788, he was sentenced to four months in prison for publishing the Almanach des Honnêtes Gens ("Honest Man's Almanac"). The months were given names numbers one through twelve (for example, March is the first month, listed as "mars ou princeps", while February is "février ou duodécembre". The calendar also replaced the usual figures of a calendars of saints with famous characters (such as Blaise Pascal). (Later editions of the Almanach used the French Republican Calendar.)
So also Marechal had his ideas to a new calendar, and that precisely in the year 1788 (same year as the "Etrennes nouvelles de l'horoscope de l'homme et de la femme" above).
http://gallica.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/bpt6k48116c.swf.f3.langFR

The name of the political group of the "Sans-cullotes" (Marechal and Sauveur participated in this group) referred to the 5 free days in the later New French calendar with 12 months with 30 days + 5 free days.