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    so the month was named Ventose instead of Ventôse. Historiography still prefers the spelling Ventôse. Like all FRC months Ventôse lasted 30 days and was...
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    construction time. Ventôse was launched on 14 March 1992 and commissioned into the French Navy on 5 May 1993. Following sea trials, Ventôse sailed for Arsenal...
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    hundred people. The final mass drownings took place on 27 February 1794 (9 Ventôse, Year II). According to official documents read to the National Convention...
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    pluvieux, derived from Latin pluvius 'rainy'), starting 20, 21, or 22 January Ventôse (from French venteux, derived from Latin ventosus 'windy'), starting 19...
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    before the Commission militaire révolutionnaire and was guillotined on 3 Ventôse An II of the French Republican Calendar at the Plâce du Ralliement in Angers...
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  • example, the names of the third month of Winter, Súlímë, Gwaeron, and Ventôse, all mean 'Windy'. C. S. Lewis's 1945 novel That Hideous Strength makes...
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    (8 and 13 Ventôse), Saint-Just proposed decrees to confiscate the property of exiles and opponents of the revolution, known as the Ventôse Decrees. In...
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  • Convention Nationale, tome 5, 17 fructidor an II (3 septempre 1794) - 30 ventôse an III (20 mars 1795), p. 537-575, Imrimerie nationale, Paris, 1804 (online)...
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    France. The six French ships of the class, Floréal, Prairial, Nivôse, Ventôse, Vendémiaire and Germinal, remain in active service. The ships' main armament...
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    ending between the 18th and 20 February. It follows Nivôse and precedes Ventôse. On October 24, 1793 Fabre d'Églantine suggested new names for the French...
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    started March 21 or March 22, and ended April 19 or April 20. It follows Ventôse and precedes Floréal. In the context of the French Revolution, Germinal...
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    "Children of the Sun" who notably formed a counter-revolutionary gathering on Ventôse 7, Year V (February 25, 1797) in Grasse on the Place aux Aires where "Le...
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    passed the law by acclamation. He also caused to be decreed on 19 Ventose Year II (9 March 1794), the arrest of slave-owning white settlers present in...
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    recapture Malta from the French 1801 8 March (17 Ventôse year IX) – British landing near Aboukir 21 March (30 Ventôse year IX) – Battle of Alexandria, French defeat...
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    ones and Valtelline in the following months: Benaco (Desenzano) on 11 Ventose (1 March 1798), Mella (Brescia) on 13 Floreal (2 May), Mincio (Mantua)...
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    of the Panthéon on 27 February 1796, Babeuf increased his activity. In Ventôse and Germinal (late winter and early spring) under the pseudonym Lalande...
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    controlled the Convention. In these circumstances, on the first day of Ventôse in Year II of the Revolution (19 February 1794), Saint-Just was elected...
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    Ventôse was one of 18 Pluviôse-class submarines built for the French Navy (Marine Nationale) in the first decade of the 20th century. The Pluviôse class...
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    Ventôse, year 21 (10 March 1803): fundamental text and provisional expedient". Bull. Acad. Natl. Med. (in French). 187 (3): 577–86, discussion 586–9....
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    nearly 100 vessels of the Force d'action navale (Naval action force) and the 9 submarines of the Forces sous-marines (Submarine force). Primary assets include...
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    'Olive's Green', 'Robinson's Gold', 'Rostrevor', 'Silver Dust', 'Variegata', 'Ventose', and 'Winter Sun'. The plant's rapid growth and great potential height...
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    square itself was proclaimed "Square of the People" by a decree of the 30 Ventôse An IV (1795) and a "Liberty tree" was planted on that occasion. At the...
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    conciliatory. The Convention voted 10 million livres for relief, on 3 Ventôse, Barère presented a new general Maximum, and on the 8th Saint-Just obtained...
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    units. C.A. Prieur (of the Côte-d'Or), read at the National Convention on Ventôse 11, year III (March 1, 1795): 1) As it does not offer almost all of the...
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    official mourning. Also on 2 June, two French Navy vessels, the frigate Ventôse and helicopter-carrier Mistral, were en route to the suspected crash site...
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    Garneray. A miniature portrait of the same subject, 9 cm in diameter and signed Garneray Ventôse, l'An 2 de la République française (Year 2 of the French...
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    The frigate Ventôse can be seen behind the old fort...
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    Having completed this work, Goujon resigned from the Commission on 2 Ventôse (20 February 1794). Soon after, he was assigned to a diplomatic mission...
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    vessels are based in Martinique, including: the surveillance frigates Ventôse and Germinal, the patrol and support ship Dumont d'Urville, the Confiance-class...
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    Favart) ; Le Vieux Château, musique de Domenico Della-Maria, créé le 25 ventôse an VI, théâtre Feydeau ; L'Oncle valet, musique de Domenico Della-Maria...
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