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BRUMAIRE

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Originally appearing in Volume V04, Page 680 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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BRUMAIRE , the name of the second See also:

month in the republican See also:calendar which was established in See also:France by a See also:decree of the See also:National See also:Convention on the 5th of See also:October in the See also:year II. (1793), completed with regard to nomenclature by See also:Fabre d'See also:Eglantine, and promulgated in its new See also:form on the 4th of Frimaire in the year II. (the 24th of See also:November 1793). The month of Brumaire began on the See also:day which corresponded, according to the year, to the 22nd or to the 23rd of October of the old calendar, and ended on the loth or 21st of November, It was divided into " decades" like the other months of the republican calendar. Its name alludes to the fogs and mists frequent at that See also:time of the year. The most important event in See also:French See also:history which took See also:place during that month was the coup d'etat of the 18th Brumaire in the year VIII. (the 9th of November 1799), by which See also:General See also:Bonaparte overthrew the See also:government of the See also:Directory to replace it by the Consulate. On the republican calendar, see G. Villain, " Le Calendrier republicain," in La Revolution francaise for 1884-1885.

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