1910–1911
Britannica 11th
Encyclopaedia Britannica · 11th edition
THERMIDOR (from Gr. OkpM, heat, and dupov, gift), the name given during the French Revolution to the eleventh month of the year in the Republican Calendar. The month fell in the hottest season of the year, beginning on the igth or 2oth of July and ending on the i8th or igth of August, according to the year. As in all the other months of the Republican Calendar, each of the days of Thermidor was, in accordance with the suggestion of Fabre d'Eglantine, consecrated to some useful object. Thus i Thermidor was consecrat…
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