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THERMIDOR (from Gr. BEpµrt, See also:heat, and & pov, See also:gift)  , the name given during the See also:French Revolution to the See also:eleventh See also:month of the See also:year in the Republican See also:Calendar . The month See also:fell in the hottest See also:season of the year, beginning on the loth or 2oth of See also:July and ending on the 18th or loth of See also:August, according to the year . As in all the other months of the Republican Calendar, each of the days of See also:Thermidor was, in accordance with the See also:suggestion of Eabre d'See also:Eglantine, consecrated to some useful See also:object . Thus 1 Thermidor was consecrated to spelt, to Thermidor to the watering-pot, 15 Thermidor to See also:sheep, and 27 Thermidor to lentils . The most important event that took See also:place in this month was the revolution of q Thermidor year II . (27th of July 1794), which resulted in the fall of See also:Robespierre and the collapse of the Terror . The name Thermidorian (Thermidorien) was given to the authors of this revolution and to the supporters of the reactionary See also:movement of which it was the See also:signal . See C. d'Hericault, La Revolution de Thermidor (2nd ed., See also:Paris, 1878) ; E . B . See also:Courtois, Rapport fait an nom de la See also:commission chargee de l'examen See also:des pa piers trouves chez Robespierre et ses complices (1795) ; D . A . See also:Martin, Papiers inedits . supprimes ou omis See also:par Courtois (3 vols., 1828) ; also bibliography in M .

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Tourneux, See also:Bibliog. de la ville de Paris . . . (189o),tvol. i., nos . 4265–4309 .

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