THERMIDOR (from Gr. BEpµrt,

See also:

• HEAT (0. E. haktu, which like " hot," Old Eng. hat, is from the Teutonic type haita, hit, to be hot; cf. Ger. hitze, heiss; Dutch, hitte, heet, &c.)

heat, and & pov,

See also:

• GIFT (a common Teutonic word, cf. Ger. die Gift, gift, das Gift, poison, formed from the Teut. stem gab-, to give, cf. Dutch geven, Ger. geben; in O. Eng. the word appears with initial y, the guttural of later English is due to Scandinavian influence)

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 loth or 2oth of July and ending on the 18th or loth 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 Eabre d'Eglantine, consecrated to some useful object . Thus 1 Thermidor was consecrated to spelt, to Thermidor to the watering-pot, 15 Thermidor to sheep, and 27 Thermidor to lentils . The most important event that took place in this month was the revolution of q Thermidor year II . (27th of July 1794), which resulted in the fall of 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 movement of which it was the signal . See C. d'Hericault, La Revolution de Thermidor (2nd ed., Paris, 1878) ; E . B . Courtois, Rapport fait an nom de la commission chargee de l'examen des pa piers trouves chez Robespierre et ses complices (1795) ; D . A . Martin, Papiers inedits . supprimes ou omis par Courtois (3 vols., 1828) ; also bibliography in M .

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