Tenth month of the Revolutionary calendar (June and July)

Usage examples of messidor.

On the register of the minutes of the Committee of Public Safety, Robespierre is always recorded as present at all meetings between Messidor 1 and Thermidor 8, inclusive.

Report to the Committee of Public Safety by Herman, Commissioner of the civil and Police administrations and of the Courts, Messidor 3, year II.

A similar resolution providing for the 7th of Messidor, signed by the same parties and five others, is dispatched the same day.

On the 12th of Messidor, "a citizen admitted to the bar reads a poem composed by him in honor of the success of our arms on the Sambre.

At Lille, an insurrection breaks out Messidor 4, because the municipality, paying nine francs for bread, can give it to the poor only for about twenty and thirty sous.

Among other instances of the misery of workmen the following petition of the men employed on the Marly water-works may be given, Messidor 28.

June, July, and August had received new names - they were now called Messidor, Thermidor, and Fructidor, but under these new names they continued to pour forth upon the earth the same old fruits, the same flowers, the same grass in the meadows and leaves upon the trees.

It is one of these who tells us that on or about the eighteenth day of Messidor, in the year of I.