Definition of "prairial" []

• The ninth month of the French Republican calendar, which dated from September 22, 1792. It began May, 20, and ended June 18. See vendemiaire. (noun)

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• "When Robespierre tells you that he distanced himself from the committee because he was suppressed, he takes care not to let you know all; he does not tell you that it is because having carried his will in the committee for six months, he found resistance the moment that, alone, he wanted to deliver the decree of 22 prairial; this decree which in impure hands which he chose, could be so grievous to patriots."
• "Gaillot, commissaire de la sixième chambre, an III., 5 prairial."
• "-- _Report of citizen Gaillot, commissary of the sixth session, 3d year, 5th prairial."