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Definition of "brumaire" []

  • The second month of the calendar adopted by the first French republic. It began thirty days after the autumnal equinox. See vendemiaire. (noun)

Gnu Collaboartive International Dictionary of English: licensed under The Code Project Open License (CPOL)

Use "brumaire" in a sentence
  • "This letter is the only specific reference to medals in Napoleon's official correspondence before 18 brumaire."
  • "Letters of de Sades on the sacking of his house near Apt, with supporting document and proofs of his civism; among others a petition drawn up by him in the name of the Pique section and read at the Convention year II. brumaire 25."
  • "But the 18th brumaire was almost as much a civil as a military revolution."
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