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thermidor
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Thermidor is a four-act dramatic play by the 19th-century French playwright Victorien Sardou . The play is set during the French Revolution and is one of seven Sardou plays set in that period. The plot follows a young actor, Labussière (based on a historical ...
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Thermidor \Ther`mi`dor"\, n. [F., fr. Gr. ? warm, hot.] The eleventh month of the French republican calendar, -- commencing July 19, and ending August 17. See the Note under Vend['e]miaire .
Usage examples of thermidor.
When the curtain came down for the very last time, he led her out to the car and drove to the Savoy Grill and gave her a delicious supper: lobster thermidor, with a mouthwatering salad, chaudfroid of raspberries and endless coffee and petits fours.
Ole Golly entertained herself usually on nights like this by making some new recipe, like Lobster Thermidor or choucroute garnie, anything that neither she nor Harriet had ever tasted before.
He it was who instigated the massacres of September, the atrocities of Nantes, the horrors of Thermidor, the sacrileges, the noyades: all with the view of causing every section of the National Assembly to vie with the other in excesses and in cruelty, until the makers of the Revolution, satiated with their own lust, turned on one another, and Sardanapalus-like buried themselves and their orgies in the vast hecatomb of a self-consumed anarchy.
Gigafords The Supernova Supermarket We have Everything, from Aardvarks to Zigguraats, Bifurcates to Billingsgate, Deicide to Deodorize, Grunions to Gryphons, Hernias to Hopolites, Kiangs to Kindersang, Ribosomes to RibaldGnomes, Thermometor to Thermidor, Zugzwang to ZwitterionIet cetera.
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.
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.
All educated men were persecuted," he states a month after Thermidor 9.
On the 9th of Thermidor, the daily trot of the multitude in quest of food has lasted uninterruptedly for seventeen months, accompanied with outrages of the worst kind because there is less terror and less submissiveness, with more obstinacy because provisions at free sale are dearer, with greater privation because the ration distributed is smaller, and with more sombre despair because each household, having consumed its stores, has nothing of its own to make up for the insufficiencies of public charity.
On the 27th of July, of the year 1794 (the 9th Thermidor of the year II, according to the strange chronology of the revolution), the reign of Terror came to an end, and all Paris danced with joy.