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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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    (Conseiller d'État) in ordinary service, attached to the War section, on 30 Frimaire of the year X. In the Year XII, he entered into extraordinary service...
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    peace-oriented policy. The fourth issue of Le Vieux Cordelier, published 30 Frimaire (20 December 1793), was explosive. He attacked the de-Christianisers...
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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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  • état civils: Naissances à Fougères, An III. Archives, Ille-et-Vilaine. (30 Frimaire an III, 1794): Vues 13-14: Jean-Marie Despréaux. Jean-Baptiste Bory de...
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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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    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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  • Thumbnail for Constitution of the Year VIII
    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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  • Thumbnail for French Republican calendar
    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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    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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    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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    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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    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 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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    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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  • year of 365 days except in leap years, and twelve months (astar): ten with 30 days and two with 31. Númenor was raised from the sea as a gift from the Valar...
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    XII (September 1804). Appointed a member of the Légion d'honneur on 19 Frimaire of that year, then an officer of the order on 25 Prairial, Pernety was...
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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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  • (13 prairial year XII). 6th session: from 2 December 1804 (11 frimaire year XIII) to 30 December 1805 (9 nivôse year XIV). 7th session: from 1 January...
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    Subsequently, he was appointed a member of the Legion of Honor on 19 Frimaire XII (11 December 1803) and a Grand Officer of the Order 25 Prairial XII...
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    bataillon in 1799. Appointed colonel of the 88th Infantry Regiment [fr] on 12 Frimaire year XII, he received the decoration of the Legion of Honour on the 19th...
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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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    électorale de Paris 17 frimaire an II (2 September 1792) (12 March 1905). Assemblée électorale de Paris 2 septembre 1792–17 frimaire an II : procès-verbaux...
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    acte, en prose, mêlée de vaudevilles, Paris, Théâtre du Vaudeville, 22 frimaire an VI (1797) Text on line L'Opéra-comique, opéra-comique en 1 acte, en...
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    1793, to which the underlined words were added on 24 November 1793 (4 Frimaire of the Year II): VIII. Each month is divided into three equal parts, of...
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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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    and the Empire (letters patent of August 30, 1811) Légion d'honneur (Legion of Honour) Legionnaire (19 Frimaire, year XII) Commander of the Legion of Honour...
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