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