• Law of 14 Frimaire passed on 4 December 1793, during the French Revolution, in which power became centralized and consolidated under the Committee of...
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    centralized powers of the committee were codified by the Law of 14 Frimaire (also known as the Law of Revolutionary Government) on 4 December 1793.[citation...
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    Jacques-Nicolas Billaud-Varenne (category People of the Reign of Terror)
    of the committee. To that end, in early December he proposed a radical centralization of authority, a law that became known as the Law of 14 Frimaire...
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    circumstances required that. The Law of 14 Frimaire (4 December 1793), voted on the report of Billaud-Varenne, restored a degree of equality between the two committees...
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  • Bulletin des lois (category Newspapers of the French Revolution)
    parts of the administration, notably those in the provinces. It was for this purpose that the Bulletin was created, by the Law of 14 Frimaire Year II...
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    Drownings at Nantes (category 1793 events of the French Revolution)
    taken to the mouth of the river Loire far from the port of Nantes: there were no survivors. On the evening of 4 December 1793 (14 Frimaire, Year II), there...
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    December 1793 (14 Frimaire) the National Convention passed the Law of Frimaire, which gave the central government more control over the actions of the representatives...
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    Marc-Guillaume Alexis Vadier (category People of the Reign of Terror)
    After the death of Robespierre, he voted for the indictment of Carrier, the organizer of the drownings in Nantes. On the 15th of Frimaire, Year III (5 December...
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  • November 1800 (1 frimaire year IX) to 7 November 1801 (16 brumaire year X). 3rd session: from 22 November 1801 (1 frimaire year X) to 14 August 1802 (26...
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    Cisalpine Republic (category Early modern history of Italy)
    Council of the Seniors), was appointed directly by Napoleon on 1 Frimaire (21 November). He justified this undemocratic action as a necessity of war. New...
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    approximately 1.949 m: French law of 19 frimaire An VIII (10 December 1799). Huygens was using Picard's value (1669) of the circumference of the Earth as 360×25×2282 toises...
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    First Republic ended with the coronation of Napoleon I as Emperor on 11 Frimaire, Year XIII, or 2 December 1804. Despite this, the republican calendar continued...
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    during the Terror, such as Law of Suspects, and the latter Law of 14th Frimaire, becoming the de facto executive branch of the Revolutionary Government...
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    and was crowned on 2 December 1804 (11 Frimaire year XIII), signifying the end of the French Consulate and of the French First Republic. Despite his coronation...
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    Revolutionary Tribunal (category Law in French Revolution)
    active part in what was eventually called the Reign of Terror. On 16 December 1794 (26 Frimaire Year III) Jean-Baptiste Carrier was sentenced to death...
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    Maximilien Robespierre (category People of the War of the First Coalition)
    Mantel in London Review of Books. Charavay, Étienne (1905). Assemblée électorale de Piemel Paris 2 septembre 1792–17 frimaire an II (in French). D. Jouaust...
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  • was appointed controller of coins at the Paris Mint on 24 Frimaire year IV (14 December 1795). He was named Engraver-General of France by Napoleon, the...
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    (league) had a number of variations, particularly the aune (which was used to measure cloth). The loi du 19 frimaire an VIII (Law of 10 December 1799) states...
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    Philibert Jean-Baptiste Curial (category Members of the Chamber of Peers of the Bourbon Restoration)
    rank of chef de bataillon in 1799. Appointed colonel of the 88th Infantry Regiment [fr] on 12 Frimaire year XII, he received the decoration of the Legion...
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    the new regime. A short-lived "loi Bouquier" (29 frimaire an II) was soon replaced by the "loi Daunou" of 3 brumaire an IV (25 October 1795), which organises...
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    December 1805/11 Frimaire An XIV FRC), also known as the Battle of the Three Emperors, was one of the most important military engagements of the Napoleonic...
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    were added on 24 November 1793 (4 Frimaire of the Year II): VIII. Each month is divided into three equal parts, of ten days each, which are called décades...
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    Sénat conservateur (category 1799 events of the French Revolution)
    regime's new master, First Consul Napoleon Bonaparte, the Constitution of 22 frimaire year VIII (13 December 1799) was the first to recreate a senate. Napoleon...
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    a gamble. The ensemble of institutions, measures and procedures which constituted it was codified in a decree of 14 Frimaire (4 December) which set the...
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    Dominique-Vincent Ramel-Nogaret (category Finance ministers of France)
    par D.-V. Ramel, député du département de l'Aude, dans la séance du 29 frimaire, l'an IV... sur les finances, le crédit des assignats, la nécessité des...
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    people of Lille stopped working on Sundays (in the republican calendar, the day of rest is the decadi), and even celebrated the day. On Frimaire 18, Year...
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    Digne-les-Bains (category Communes of Alpes-de-Haute-Provence)
    May 1793 and the crushing of the federalist insurrection in July, which resulted in a sentence to death in Digne. On 5 frimaire year III, the Représentant...
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    Antoine Quentin Fouquier-Tinville (category People of the Reign of Terror)
    aux différens chefs d'accusation portés en l'acte à lui notifié, le 26 frimaire: a la défense générale de Billaud-Varennes, Collot-d'Herbois, Barrère et...
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  • direct tax levied on income. Capitation – A poll tax. Vendémiaire Brumaire Frimaire Nivôse Pluviôse Ventôse Germinal Floréal Prairial Messidor Thermidor Fructidor...
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    Hélène de Montgeroult (category Academic staff of the Conservatoire de Paris)
    appointed a first-class teacher of the men's piano class on 22 November 1795, by order of appointment on 1 Frimaire, Year IV. Moreover, she was also...
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