Thermidor
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- noun
- /ˈtɜrmɪˌdɔr/
- Archaic
- In the first Salon after Thermidor, in 1795, a portrait of the newly married Tallien was included in Laneuville's entry, along with images of three other deputies, an ex-minister, a military officer, and an artist.
- Lady of Thermidor
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The prison theme was revived and updated after Thermidor as a means of engaging with the Terror and its aftermath.
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Political Thermidor
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A government defined largely by a shifting parade of enemies could have no stable relation with its pre-Thermidorean past or with the former hero of Thermidor.
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Cabarrus, looking back in 1796 at the short and eventful course of her adult life from the vantage point of "Our Lady of Thermidor
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She left prison a celebrity, hailed as "Our Lady of Thermidor," the motivating force behind the overthrow of Robespierre.
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He had been elected to the new lower chamber of deputies, the Conseil de Cinq-Cents, but had never recovered the influence he briefly enjoyed after Thermidor.
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Immediately after Thermidor, one of André Chénier's last poems was published in the Décade Philosophique, a leading journal.
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The young Albertine was kept in the dark about this woman's rumored liaison with Robespierre until 11 Thermidor, two days after his Jacobin government fell, but other students knew who she was.
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This criticism extended to her husband, who discovered that the aureole surrounding the hero of Thermidor did not protect him from condemnation for his own role in the Terror or, from the other end of the political spectrum, suspicions of royalist plotting.
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The events of 9 Thermidor marked a turning point in the French Revolution.
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A rich creamy seafood dish, often lobster, or the eleventh month in the French Revolutionary calendar
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Etymology
The word Thermidor comes from the Greek word thermos meaning 'heat' and shares the same root as thermometer and thermal. So Thermidor was the 'hot' month in the French Revolutionary calendar, and the name later came to mark the events that happened during that summer.