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    Frimaire (French pronunciation: [fʁimɛʁ]) was the third month in the French Republican Calendar. The month was named after the French word frimas 'frost'...
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    ISBN 9781134944200. Journal de Bruxelles 90, page 718 and 719, 'De Gênes, le 16 Frimaire (7 décembre 1799)' Hearder, Harry (22 July 2014). Italy in the Age of...
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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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    Frimaire was one of 16 Brumaire-class submarines built for the French Navy during the 1910s. Couhat, Jean Labayle (1974). French Warships of World War...
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    de vie ! – On lut bientôt dans le 33e bulletin, daté d’Austerlitz, le 16 frimaire : – « Le général Roger Valhubert est mort des suites de ses blessures...
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    VIII (French: Constitution de l'an VIII or French: Constitution du 22 frimaire an VIII) was a national constitution of France, adopted on 24 December...
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  • November was referred to as Blōtmōnaþ by the Anglo-Saxons. Brumaire and Frimaire were the months on which November fell in the French Republican calendar...
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  • VIII) to 7 November 1800 (16 brumaire year IX). 2nd session: from 22 November 1800 (1 frimaire year IX) to 7 November 1801 (16 brumaire year X). 3rd session:...
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    crowned Emperor and Empress of the French on Sunday, December 2, 1804 (11 Frimaire, Year XIII according to the French Republican calendar), at Notre-Dame...
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  • Tolkien 1987, "The Etymologies" Carpenter 2023, #257 to Christopher Bretherton, 16 July 1964 Carpenter 2023, #131 to Milton Waldman, c. 1951 Salo 2004, Appendix...
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    21 and 23 December. It ended between 19 and 21 January. It follows the Frimaire and precedes the Pluviôse. The new names for the calendar were suggested...
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    The French Republican Calendar contained December within the months of Frimaire and Nivôse. December contains the winter solstice in the Northern Hemisphere...
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    between 20 November and 22 November. It follows Vendémiaire and precedes Frimaire. In political/historical usage, Brumaire can refer to the coup of 18 Brumaire...
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    exaggerate the revolution. On 5 December 1793 (14 Frimaire) the National Convention passed the Law of Frimaire, which gave the central government more control...
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    du 3 frimaire an III (23 novembre 1794)". Archives Parlementaires de la Révolution Française. 102 (1): 99–117. Archived from the original on 16 December...
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    and the Council of the Seniors), was appointed directly by Napoleon on 1 Frimaire (21 November). He justified this undemocratic action as a necessity of...
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    Nantes: there were no survivors. On the evening of 4 December 1793 (14 Frimaire, Year II), there was a meeting of key members of the Revolutionary Committee...
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    théâtre Feydeau ; L'Oncle valet, musique de Domenico Della-Maria, créé le 18 frimaire an VII, Opéra-Comique (salle Favart) ; Le Trente et Quarante, ou le Portrait...
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    their backs to the sea. They hoped for assistance from the gunboat La Frimaire, which was at anchor off Preveza, but the captain of the ship, having received...
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    and 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...
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    campagne du général en chef Brune en Batavie, du 5 fructidor an 7, au 9 frimaire an 8 Smith, Digby. The Napoleonic Wars Data Book. Greenhill, 1998. The...
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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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    1 toise = 54000⁄27706 metres, or approximately 1.949 m: French law of 19 frimaire An VIII (10 December 1799). Huygens was using Picard's value (1669) of...
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    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 and executed...
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    particularly the aune (which was used to measure cloth). The loi du 19 frimaire an VIII (Law of 10 December 1799) states that one decimal metre is exactly...
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    was resurrected when he was appointed to the prefecture of the Vendée (9 Frimaire IX, or 30 November 1800), a position he accepted despite the difficulties...
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    Emperor of the French. The formal coronation ceremony was delayed until 11 Frimaire year XIII (2 December 1804), when Pope Pius VII attended and Napoleon crowned...
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  • Franciade. It began at the autumn equinox: Autumn: Vendémiaire Brumaire Frimaire Winter: Nivôse Pluviôse Ventôse Spring: Germinal Floréal Prairial Summer:...
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    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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    insurrection in July, which resulted in a sentence to death in Digne. On 5 frimaire year III, the Représentant en mission Gauthier [fr] purified the society...
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